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Western Plains patients to benefit from clinical cancer trial

08/08/2023 by The Coonamble Times

PHOTO: Actor Samuel Johnson with Louise Mathieson of The Administration Agency and Dubbo Triple M breakfast radio announcer Chris ‘Matho’ Mathieson during his Dubbo visit.

Much-loved Australian actor Samuel Johnson OAM, co-founder of the Love Your Sister (LYS) Foundation, has visited Dubbo and central west NSW recently to promote a clinical cancer trial model bringing “Precision Medicine” to rural and regional residents. 

Mr Johnson spent a week talking to businesses and community groups in mid-July about his foundation’s partnership with Macquarie University and NSW Health that will see international standard clinical trials of Precision Medicine piloted at Dubbo Base Hospital in the near future. 

LYS has committed $1.2 million to Macquarie University for its Oncology Trials for the Regional, Rural and Remote Patients Collaboration (ONTRAC) Project, which will run over three years… 

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