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Professor Richard Scolyer is recovering at home with a long scar on the left side of his head.

Former Australian of the Year down to ‘months, not years’ after brain tumour returns

Surgery has revealed that Professor Richard Scolyer has had a recurrence of his highly aggressive glioblastoma.

  • Garry Maddox

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Professor Richard Scolyer at the Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney University.

Former Australian of the Year heads into brain surgery after devastating scan

World-renowned pathologist and researcher Richard Scolyer is facing an operation to explore fears of a lethal tumour growing back.

  • Garry Maddox
University of Sydney professor Georgina Long said the trial would uncover whether the approach she has pioneered to treat melanoma could be used to fight glioblastoma.

Can this melanoma therapy beat brain cancer? We’re about to find out

A world-first clinical trial will investigate whether the experimental treatment given to a former Australian of the Year can treat aggressive tumours in other patients.

  • Angus Thomson
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Playing fraudster Belle Gibson ‘felt like a calling’ for Kaitlyn Dever

For many young actors, the chance to portray cancer “survivor” Belle Gibson would hold great appeal. And for the 28-year-old, the role was also deeply personal.

  • Steve Dow
Alice O’Keefe is a PhD student at the University of Wollongong developing tiny crystals that can heat up and kill brain cancer cells.

How scientists plan to use magnets to ‘cook’ cancer – without killing brain cells

Tiny particles that look like dirt could be heated by a magnetic field to target cancer cells deep within the brain.

  • Angus Dalton
Australians of the Year, Professor Georgina Long and Professor Richard Scolyer.

Pioneering doctors Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long named Australians of the Year

Scolyer and Long have saved tens of thousands of lives by revolutionising melanoma treatment. Now they’re turning their attention to brain cancer as Scolyer stares down a terminal diagnosis.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
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Best features – 2023

From politics and private affairs to court battles, culture wars and more: reader favourites from Good Weekend in 2023.

Emma Eltringham watched her daughter Ruby fight cancer. Now she has been diagnosed with a rare type which was almost missed by doctors.

This young mum went to her GP with unexplained weight gain. Now she’s fighting for her life

Emma Eltringham watched her daughter fight and beat a rare form of leukaemia. But after thinking things could return to normal, she was also diagnosed with a late-stage cancer.

  • Holly Thompson
Dr Richard Scolyer: “I’m not up for palliative care. I want to push the boundaries.”

The world’s top melanoma pathologist has brain cancer. Can he save himself?

Australian medical pioneer Dr Richard Scolyer, who was named 2024 joint Australian of the Year on Thursday night, has never used the word “cure” lightly. But in this Good Weekend article from 2023, he described how he was pursuing exactly that.

  • Tim Elliott

The September 16 Edition

‘I’m a guinea pig’: how the world’s top melanoma pathologist is treating his own brain cancer | Bullying tactics or simple economics? The AFL’s bold Tassie play

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