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A new app was launched to help women with Ovarian cancer

AAP - 13-09-2017

The Cherish Women's Cancer Foundation has launched a new app that will help give back some control to women with ovarian cancer. A new app

 
Scientists can stop melanoma from spreading to distant organs

AAP - 11-09-2017

Australian researchers believe they have made an important step toward curing melanoma after its spread from the skin to the lymph nodes. Scientists

 
Immunotherapy giving lung cancer sufferers a second chance

HealthTimes - 01-09-2017

Cancer drugs that have been used successfully in the treatment of melanoma are now entering the lung cancer space with doctors reporting groundbreaking results.

 
Lung cancer patients die sooner in Australia than Taiwan

HealthTimes - 29-08-2017

Australians with advanced lung cancer are unlikely to survive longer than two years after they commence treatment, according to new research which has highlighted the limitations

 
AIM BRAIN trial could potentially save lives

AAP - 25-08-2017

Researchers say a fast-tracked clinical trial of childhood brain cancer will improve treatment and potentially save lives. A "groundbreaking"

 
Australian-first trial will give leukaemia and lymphoma sufferers hope

AAP - 08-08-2017

A new medical trial at Westmead hospital will use gene-altering therapy to treat leukaemia

 
A drug compound hope for breast cancer

AAP - 03-08-2017

Australian scientists hope the drug compound S63845 will supercharge the treatment of some of the most aggressive types of breast

 
Cancer patients will soon get easier access to a new miracle drug

AAP - 31-07-2017

Miracle drug Opdivo, which has an exorbitant price tag, will now be within the reach of all Australian renal and cancer patients when it is listed on the PBS.

 
Importance of physical activity for prostate cancer patients prompts new group exercise class

HealthTimes - 26-07-2017

When Christchurch man Clynton Inns was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in February 2016, simply getting through the treatment regime was his main priority.

 
Cancer patients compromising treatment due to financial issue

AAP - 21-07-2017

New analysis has found that up to half of all Australian cancer survivors

 

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