When Lynda Dunstone was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer she was given six months to live. A new treatment discovered she was wrongly diagnosed and ‘saved her life’ – now she wants it accessible to save thousands more Australians.
Just 12-weeks into his short life, baby Flynn Christy was diagnosed with infantile fibrosarcoma – but a “miracle drug” has worked wonders on his large tumour.
Liv Curtis was diagnosed with a lethal cancer and had a complicated and dangerous operation to remove a tumour the size of a full-term baby. Now, a new medical discovery has given her hope.
An investigation has been launched after the biopsy results of two breast cancer patients were mixed up in a shocking lab bungle.
Never ignore the signs
More Darling Downs patients receiving cancer treatment will be able to stay in Toowoomba for treatment once a city hospital launches a new department.
Some people were having multiple visits to GPs before this rare tumour was picked up. But that will now change due to this one thing, which will have a huge impact on healthcare.
A new treatment for the most common form of breast cancer has boosted cure rates in a major international trial led by the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
Sarah Ferguson has described how she coped after being diagnosed with two cancers in a year, which felt “like a bomb going off in your life”.
America may introduce warning labels on alcohol after a report attributed 100,000 US cancer cases a year to booze. Find out what cancer you could get and how little you have to drink to risk it.
People born in the early 2000s have a six-to-seven-fold increased likelihood of getting bowel cancer — and now researchers have uncovered the gut reason behind the shock trend.
A world-first blood test that detects melanoma before it’s even visible on the skin could be a gamechanger in Australia. See how soon you could get it.
A brutal disease is on the rise across Australia after crossing over into the “ordinary world”, with a new wave of cases impacting teenagers.
Every year, millions of Australians spend their summer outside with their loved ones, blissfully unaware that one simple mistake could cost them everything.
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