A 12 months after a large seizure triggered his mind most cancers prognosis, high melanoma physician Richard Scolyer stays cancer-free.
The Australian has undergone a world-first, experimental therapy for glioblastoma, based mostly on his personal pioneering melanoma analysis.
His subtype of most cancers is so aggressive most sufferers survive lower than a 12 months.
However the 57-year-old introduced on Tuesday his newest MRI scan had once more confirmed no recurrence of the tumour.
“I could not be happier!!!!!” he wrote in an replace on social media.
Prof Scolyer is an internationally famend pathologist, and was this 12 months named Australian of the Yr alongside his colleague and good friend Georgina Lengthy, in recognition of their life-changing work on melanoma.
Co-directors of the Melanoma Institute Australia, over the previous decade their group’s analysis on immunotherapy, which makes use of the physique’s immune system to assault most cancers cells, has dramatically improved outcomes for superior melanoma sufferers globally. Half at the moment are basically cured, up from lower than 10%.
It is that analysis that Professor Lengthy, alongside a group of docs, is utilizing to deal with Prof Scolyer – within the hope of discovering a treatment for his most cancers too.
