Predicting treatment response or survival of cancer patients remains challenging in immuno-oncology. Efforts to overcome these challenges focus, among others, on the discovery of new biomarkers. Despite advances in cellular and molecular approaches, only a limited number of candidate biomarkers eventually enter clinical practice. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• May 2021

This study involved focus groups with 132 children and 12 parents in primary and secondary school in Victoria to explore children's independent mobility. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• May 2017

Cyber Friendly Schools program was associated with significantly greater declines in the odds of involvement in cyber-victimization and perpetration ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• March 2016

Both children and adults benefit from living in communities and neighborhoods that are rich in social capital. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• December 2011

The current study brought a bioecological approach to children’s early vocabulary development using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• October 2011

Forced oscillation technique ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• January 2010

The monoclonal antibody, palivizumab is licensed for use in high-risk infants to prevent severe illness caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The level of its use and compliance with current jurisdictional guidelines which were amended in 2010, is unknown. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• October 2020

High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2013
• July 2013

Chemotherapy is included in treatment regimens for many solid cancers, but when administered as a single agent it is rarely curative. The addition of immune checkpoint therapy to standard chemotherapy regimens has improved response rates and increased survival in some cancers. However, most patients do not respond to treatment and immune checkpoint therapy can cause severe side effects. Therefore, there is a need for alternative immunomodulatory drugs that enhance chemotherapy. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• February 2024

This study investigated the extent to which prenatal and perinatal risk factors were associated with LLE in a population-level sample of twins at age 2 without overt disability. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2018
• February 2018

The relationship between features of the neighbourhood built environment and early child development was investigated ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• November 2017

This paper examines whether adolescents can be reliably categorized into subgroups based on their patterns of anxiety levels over time and whether low levels of social support from parents, peers, and their school, and high levels of peer victimization, predict a pattern of increasing anxiety. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• January 2022