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Speaker 2: Good morning, and welcome to the Daily OS. It's Saturday,

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Speaker 2: the twenty second of February.

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Speaker 3: I'm Zara, I'm Emma, and it's that time of the week, Zara,

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Speaker 3: where we pause reflect, talk about the joyful moments from

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Speaker 3: the news cycle that you might have missed this week.

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Speaker 4: Our favorite time of the week.

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Speaker 1: Our favorite time of the week.

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Speaker 5: And we're kicking things off today with a story I

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Speaker 5: didn't think we would be including in this podcast.

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Speaker 1: I know, a story about cancer treatment.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 2: I do want to say it's very rare and very

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Speaker 2: strange to be talking about cancer treatment in a good

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Speaker 2: news podcast, But I think that's what makes this story

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Speaker 2: so incredible. And what has happened is that this week

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Speaker 2: there were results from a clinical trial that were published,

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Speaker 2: and those results proved that the majority of melanoma patients

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Speaker 2: whose disease had spread to their brains could essentially be

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Speaker 2: cured with a new treatment plan.

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Speaker 1: This is huge breakthrough, right, huge.

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Speaker 2: Breakthrough, and what are the first breakthroughs we've had in

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Speaker 2: this combination immunotherapy, and this is something that Professor Georgina Long,

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Speaker 2: really pioneered, this new treatment plan. Essentially, it found that

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Speaker 2: with using this treatment there was an overall survival rate

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Speaker 2: given the immunotherapy treatment up front.

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Speaker 5: This is the treatment that some people might be familiar

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Speaker 5: with in the conversation around Professor Richard Scollier, a co

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Speaker 5: Australian of the Year exactly who pioneered with Georgina Loong

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Speaker 5: the melanoma treatment of this similar nature.

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Speaker 5: Georgina Lung's work, they trialed this combination immunotherapy on Richards

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Speaker 5: Golia's tumor exactly.

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Speaker 2: And I think just to go to the heart of

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Speaker 2: But just to really ground why this is such a

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Speaker 2: big story. Australia has the highest melanoma rates in the world,

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Speaker 2: and there's one person dying every six hours. Then, to

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Speaker 5: Exactly, and that combination therapy that you've spoken about there, Zara,

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Speaker 2: the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade will light

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Speaker 5: And we see just like costumes, personalities, drag queens, performers,

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Speaker 4: Talk me through the pods in the airport in Texas.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, well I have a good round three words there.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of scientific breakthroughs, a very clever team of researchers

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Speaker 5: To imagine what a mega raptor might look like, they

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Speaker 5: Jake Kotevski. Now it's believed they were formed up to

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Speaker 2: Now, m I do want to finish on some homegrown

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Speaker 5: There are so many amazing Matilda's players that play in

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Speaker 5: that English woman's Premier League and if you want more

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Speaker 5: Matilda's excitement, they are in the US at the moment

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Speaker 5: playing in the She Believes Cup, and it's so exciting

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Speaker 4: Yes exact, we'll just leave that one. You can find

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Speaker 1: It not the podcast for it's the time, not the place.

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Speaker 2: deep dive. But until then, have a wonderful weekend.

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Speaker 1: My name is Lily Madden and I'm a proud Arunda

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Speaker 1: Bungelung Calcuttin woman from Gadighl country.

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Speaker 2: The Daily oz acknowledges that this podcast is recorded on

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Speaker 2: the lands of the Gadighl people and pays respect to

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Speaker 2: all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island and nations.

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Speaker 1: We pay our respects to the first peoples of these countries,

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Speaker 1: both past and present.