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Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: I was watching a current affair last night and I've

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Speaker 2: been long following the journey of Professor Richard Scolia. He's

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Speaker 2: a leading melanoma researcher in Australian of the Year recipient,

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Speaker 2: but also he was given only a few months to

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Speaker 2: live a few years ago because he had and it

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Speaker 2: was a brain condition, curable brain cancer two years ago

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Speaker 2: glia blasteoma.

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Speaker 1: And pretty much the prognosis was six months. He is

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Speaker 1: a leading I think he's an immunologist in melanoma melanyma.

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Speaker 2: His speciality is melanima.

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Speaker 1: So he and his colleague decided to treat his brain

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Speaker 1: cancer with the techniques that they've been using to treat

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Speaker 1: melanoma and it's given him. They think they're still studying

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Speaker 1: whether this experimental treatment has prolonged his life, but he

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Speaker 1: has lived an extra year than expected. What has been

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Speaker 1: very sad is he's revealed that the cancer has returned.

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Speaker 1: He was totally in November, he was cancer free. His

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Speaker 1: journey has been quite extraordinary in Australia was just so

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Speaker 1: excited for him and what we've interviewed him is the

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Speaker 1: loveliest man he really is. And they say the treatment

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Speaker 1: for that form of brain cancer has been mostly unchanged

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Speaker 1: in the last twenty years. I know, Carry Bigmore has

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Speaker 1: been a big campaigner about this. So to develop a

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Speaker 1: world first treatment for a brain tumor based on their

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Speaker 1: breakthroughs in melanoma will change people's lives.

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Speaker 2: And it's something that you've don't undertake lightly. I know

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Speaker 2: lots been said about Kyle Sandlan's with his situation, but

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Speaker 2: having that aneurism is a big deal, you know, no

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Speaker 2: matter what it is, when they discover an aneurism in

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Speaker 2: your brain. And as he said, they can't split his

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Speaker 2: head open because it would be you know, he could

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Speaker 2: lose a lot, so that would be a time bomb

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Speaker 2: in your head.

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Speaker 1: And this is what Professor Scollier has said, is that

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Speaker 1: he doesn't know how long he has maybe months, maybe less,

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Speaker 1: and between now and then, he knows that various bits

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Speaker 1: of his faculties will go, his movement and his speech.

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Speaker 1: He's chosen to spend this time with his family. He's

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Speaker 1: a grateful, humble, extraordinary man. And as they say, these

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Speaker 1: are the sorts of men who grow trees the shade

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Speaker 1: of which they won't sit under. I don't phrased that

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Speaker 1: very well, but he's done an extraordinary amount of work

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Speaker 1: for the future patients that will be treated the way

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Speaker 1: he's been experimenting. He's an amazing man. It was a

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Speaker 1: very emotional interview, wasn't it last night with.

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Speaker 2: Ali Oh with Ali Langdon on a current affair. But

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Speaker 2: where I lost it was this last question that Ali

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Speaker 2: asked Richard, when you look at what's coming, will we

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Speaker 2: have another chance to sit down and talk? Do you think?

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Speaker 2: I don't know?

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Speaker 1: Honestly, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a few weeks, a few months, coupy longer, I

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Speaker 2: don't know. And as Richard said, make the most of

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Speaker 2: every day because you don't know what's around the courts.

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Speaker 1: You just don't. And our thoughts with him and his family,