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Nov 2025
24m 6s

Liver cancer: discovering the next gener...

Garvan Institute of Medical Research
About this episode

For decades, the fight against cancer has focused on killing the tumour cell. We treated cancer like an isolated entity that needed to be destroyed – but what if we’ve been looking at the wrong target?

In this episode, we delve into the critical insight that cancer is not just a rogue cell – it’s an entire ecosystem – and that ecosystem is the key to unlocking a new class of cures.

We hear from Garvan's Dr Ankur Sharma, who is using precision technology to dissect how the environment around liver cancers allows them to grow unchecked. The ultimate goal for this research is to develop better diagnostics and treatments for this deadly cancer.

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