More than 2,000 people in the United States have developed serious lung disease and damage in a poisoning outbreak associated with the use of vaping devices...
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By the age of 85 one in two Australians will have been diagnosed with cancer – Australian Institute of health and Welfare (AIHW). It’s a sobering statistic...
Blood cancer kills 20 Australians each day on average, with death rates due to double by 2035 unless something is done. The federal government has announced a...
A new study highlights effective ways to improving care for people living with cancer by working on the communication between physicians and their patients.
Feelings of awkwardness and embarrassment could stop Australia from becoming the first country to eradicate cervical cancer, new research suggests.
A drug that studies show can help those with HER2-positive breast cancer reduce their chance of relapsing has been given the green light for Australia.
Almost three-quarters of Australian men diagnosed with “low risk” prostate cancer are not being actively monitored to detect disease spread, a study has found.
Prostate cancer survivors taking androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), a treatment commonly used to block the release of male hormones, are at a higher risk of...
People who are not regularly screened for bowel cancer are significantly more likely to die from the disease than those who participate in the National Bowel...
Two-thirds of women with the most common form of breast cancer may not need chemotherapy.