Tailor-Made Childhood Cancer Treatments with Professor Maria Kavallaris AM One Big Idea

More than 400,000 children and adolescents will be diagnosed with cancer worldwide this year. Many treatments that are meant to save a child can leave them with lifelong side-effects, including heart damage, infertility and cognitive issues. But for the first time, precision medicine is using the tiniest tools – nanoparticles – to design tailor-made treatments to beat childhood cancer. Tune in to learn how precision medicine is changing the odds in the fight against childhood cancer with Professor Maria Kavallaris AM, a researcher whose own cancer diagnosis occurred at the same time as a career-changing opportunity to join the Children's Cancer Institute.

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Tailor-Made Childhood Cancer Treatments with Professor Maria Kavallaris AM One Big Idea is an episode from UNSW Centre for Ideas by UNSW Centre for Ideas.

This episode is 39:09 long.

This episode was published on Dec 4, 2025.

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