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Federal government will subsidise four life-saving cancer drugs next month

AAP - 16-07-2018

The federal government will subsidise a cancer drug that gives hope to mantle cell lymphoma patients who suffer a relapse along with three other cancer drugs.

 
A new blood test may boost lung cancer detection

AAP - 13-07-2018

A new blood test developed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer may help improve the early detection of lung cancer among smokers.

 
A Cancer Council NSW study has exposed inequities in the treatment of lung cancer patients

AAP - 28-06-2018

As many as one-in-three lung cancer patients visit their GP multiple times before eventually presenting to emergency, acutely unwell, prior to their diagnosis, a Cancer

 
New hope for stage-three melanoma

AAP - 26-06-2018

Melbourne man Peter Gourlay has funded his own cancer treatment for stage three melanoma but the costs are prohibitive. After witnessing family

 
Dermatologists are urging men to stop ignoring their risk of skin cancer

AAP - 06-06-2018

A survey shows less than one in three Australian men consider themselves at risk of skin cancer, raising concern among dermatologists. Australian

 
Hope for patients with advanced skin cancer

AAP - 05-06-2018

A clinical trial has shown patients with advanced skin cancer respond well to immunotherapy drug Cemiplimab. Australian doctors have made a breakthrough

 
New hope for drug resistant cancers as Griffith drug goes on trial in Czech Republic

HealthTimes - 04-06-2018

Patients with drug resistant forms of breast cancer and some forms of pancreatic cancer may have new hope, thanks to a new drug first developed at Griffith and now being trialled

 
A new report shows bowel cancer screening is saving lives

AAP - 31-05-2018

A new report shows people who don't participate in the National Bowel Cancer Screening program are 13 per cent more likely to die from the disease.

 
Hope for a deadly form of brain cancer

AAP - 30-05-2018

Interim results from a clinical trial into glioblastoma - a deadly form of brain cancer - are encouraging, the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation says.

 
Prostate cancer curable when diagnosed early

AAP - 28-05-2018

Men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer may miss out on being cured of the disease because they are not monitoring their condition closely.

 

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