Tasmanian Lung Cancer Registry - TLCR

06/01/2026

If quitting smoking or va**ng is your goal for the year, there are many resources you can use:

📞 Call Quitline on 13 78 48 to talk to a counsellor or visit www.quit.org.au/

🩺 Talk to your doctor or pharmacist

📱 My QuitBuddy is a free smartphone app that supports people to quit smoking and va**ng, and you can customise the app to suit your needs.
www.health.gov.au/resources/apps-and-tools/my-quitbuddy-app

🚫 Visit Quit Tasmania: www.quittas.org.au

🚭 Visit Smoke Free Generation: smokefreegeneration.org.au

💻 For a free online tool that can customise a quit plan for you, visit: www.quit.org.au

🏥 Speak to a smoking cessation nurse if you are in hospital

Learn more about different quitting methods and work out which ones might work best for you at these websites:
🔗 www.health.tas.gov.au/health-topics/smoking/quitting-smoking
🔗 www.health.gov.au/topics/smoking-va**ng-and-tobacco/how-to-quit/quitting-methods

14/11/2025

17/10/2025

SAVE THE DATE!
Sunday, 9 November 10AM - 4PM
📍Experience gorgeous Wesleyan Gardens, located just 20 minutes from Launceston at 225 Underwood Rd.
🎶Live music
👨‍👩‍👧 Bring the whole family!
🏥Fundraising for our health programs - last year's Garden Fete event made a huge contribution to the Friends' overall fundraising efforts. Your attendance and support counts!

02/05/2025

08/01/2025

Published in Pulmonology (Vol. 31, No. 1, 2025)

08/01/2025

Pleased to share another 2025 article from our research group published in Pharmacology & Therapeutics (IF 12). IPF remains a challenging disease with no drugs available to change the trajectory. It is a highly destructive disease with pathogenesis still not clearly understood. In this comprehensive clinical and translational review, we have revisited the pathology of IPF with particular focus on vascular endothelial and epithelial cell changes, mechanistic signalling pathways, clinical definition, update on diagnosis and new advances made in treatment of this insidious disease. This have been a massive collaborative effort with colleagues from University of Tasmania Wenying Lu (Monica), Affan Shahzad, Launceston General Hospital (LGH) Maddison Waters Greg Haug, Lucilla Piccari Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, Anna-Karin Larsson Callerfelt Lund University, Sweden, Dr. Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan and Ilma Shakeel from Centre For Interdisciplinary Research In Basic Sciences, New Delhi, India and Alan Teoh from Centre of Research Excellence in Pulmonary Fibrosis. Congratulations to everyone and thanks very much for supporting this important piece of work!
Link to paper - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0163725824001773

03/01/2025

The Future Is Pink.

19/11/2024

01/11/2023

17/05/2022

Integrating the crosstalk between autophagy and epithelial to mesenchymal transition in cancer is crucial, especially in designing chemotherapeutic agents. This is a first of a kind comprehensive review of this concept.
Great collaboration work with Dr Rohit Gundamaraju and Prof. Saeid Ghavami.

Metastasis consists of hallmark events, including Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT), angiogenesis, initiation of inflammatory tumor microenviron…