Grieving daughter wants to improve detection of pancreatic cancer Pancreatic cancer is hard to detect and lethal, with the number of cases expected to rise. What can be done?
Is it time for a lung cancer screening program in Australia? Cancer Australia is seeking answers about the possibility of implementing screening for the nation’s deadliest cancer.
Research shows need for earlier breast cancer detection It found young women are almost twice as likely to have advanced breast cancer at diagnosis, rather than localised disease.
Born and bred in Australia? Melanoma risk up by 50% Researchers have found 22 different genes help shape a person’s risk of melanoma according to their level of sun exposure.
A grieving GP: How one doctor and her brave son fought leukaemia Dr Emily Isham tells newsGP about the loneliness and trauma left after her family’s five-year ordeal.
‘Game changing’ cancer drugs listed on the PBS Thousands of Australians with non-small cell lung cancer and early-stage acute lymphoblastic leukaemia will have access to better treatment options.
Prostate cancer survival at ‘all-time high’ – but is it a happy life? Life goes on but its quality is often diminished, according to a new study.
Lifetime risk of most common cancers overstated: new research Australia’s five most common cancers are less of a lifetime risk than previously thought – particularly for men.
‘Look, lift, feel’: Being breast-aware for life Oncoplastic breast surgeon Associate Professor Sanjay Warrier hopes his new campaign will empower younger women to carry out their own examinations.
Streamlined bowel cancer register to commence Support for bowel cancer screening is set to increase through amalgamation with the National Cancer Screening Register.