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Maeve Bannister

Melanoma expert 'patient zero' in brain cancer fight

Prof Richard Scolyer has trialled a brain cancer vaccine on himself after an incurable diagnosis. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS)

A leading melanoma pathologist has become the first person in the world to receive a personalised brain cancer vaccine as he experiments with treatments in the face of an incurable diagnosis. 

Melanoma Institute Australia co-medical director Professor Richard Scolyer, 56, was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma in June, a form of brain cancer with no known cure.

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