Monday Lunch Live with Dr Adam Walker
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Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
Level 13 meeting room 305 Grattan St Melbourne, VIC 3000 AustraliaDescription
VCCC MONDAY LUNCH LIVE EVENT
Preventing and treating the cognitive and psychiatric side-effects of cancer
Dr Adam Walker is a National Breast cancer Foundation Fellow investigating the mechanisms underlying cognitive and psychiatric side-effects of cancer and its treatment to improve quality of life in cancer survivors.
Cancer patients and survivors experience a range of debilitating CNS-related symptoms that include cognitive impairment and depression. We have no treatments for these symptoms and a number of psychological and behavioural interventions have proven to be ineffective.
Dr Walker’s research program uses preclinical models of cancer and cancer treatment to identify targetable biological mechanisms of cancer and cancer treatment-associated CNS-related symptoms. He uses animal models of breast cancer-induced cognitive impairment and depression, post-operative cognitive decline and ‘chemobrain’ to identify whether anti-inflammatories and other translatable drugs can be repurposed to prevent and treat cancer-associated symptoms such as cognitive impairment, fatigue and depression.
Monday 30 April 2018
VCCC Building, Lecture Theatre B, Level 7
Light lunch served from 12:30pm
Presentation: 1-2pm
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