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Supporting GPs to diagnose lung cancer earlier

Supporting GPs to diagnose lung cancer earlier

A new Cancer Australia guide is designed to help health professionals investigate the symptoms and signs of lung cancer for an earlier diagnosis.


Targeting disadvantage in smoking cessation

Targeting disadvantage in smoking cessation

A program being trialled in Adelaide will take a new approach to an old, intractable problem – high smoking rates in low socioeconomic areas.


Is it time for a lung cancer screening program in Australia?

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.


 ‘We have to normalise it’: Boosting bowel cancer screening rates

‘We have to normalise it’: Boosting bowel cancer screening rates

Participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program remains low, but Professor Jon Emery believes GPs are instrumental to boosting numbers.


Updated position statement on ovarian cancer

Updated position statement on ovarian cancer

Cancer Australia CEO Dr Helen Zorbas talks to newsGP about what GPs need to know on testing for ovarian cancer in asymptomatic women.


Understanding breast cancer risk factors

Understanding breast cancer risk factors

A new website from Cancer Australia can help women and health professionals better understand the evidence behind 68 different risk factors for breast cancer.


New guides reshaping lung cancer care

New guides reshaping lung cancer care

Two new Cancer Australia guides aim at driving better outcomes for people diagnosed with Australia’s deadliest cancer.


Simple blood test to predict rare cancers

Simple blood test to predict rare cancers' likely spread

New Queensland University of Technology research has shed fresh light on how head and neck cancer spreads to other organs.


New ‘stage of diagnosis’ data from Cancer Australia offers valuable insights for GPs

New ‘stage of diagnosis’ data from Cancer Australia offers valuable insights for GPs

New data released by Cancer Australia on stage of diagnosis for the nation’s five most prevalent cancers highlights challenges and strategies for management in general practice.


New site collates cancer data from across Australia

New site collates cancer data from across Australia

Cancer Australia’s new interactive website is designed to provide healthcare professionals and patients with ‘national data across the continuum of cancer control’.


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