Cancer
Could consuming seed oils give you colon cancer?
A new study has reignited claims that we are being “poisoned” by seed oils. But should we really be avoiding them?
- Sarah Berry
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‘Sunscreen is toxic’ and three other SPF myths to rethink this summer
Common misconceptions still stop Australians from using SPF products correctly, despite the country having the world’s highest melanoma rate.
- Kayla Olaya
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
The common virus fuelling a ‘tsunami’ of cancers, particularly in men
Health experts are warning of a “tsunami” of a rare cancer, with overall cases more than tripling over the past two decades.
- Henrietta Cook
Jade and David both beat cancer. Their care will be a model for the future
Jade Wendt’s nurse helped her husband navigate cancer. People with any type of cancer will be able to receive help from the McGrath Foundation.
- Angus Thomson
Queensland is the global skin cancer capital, but for how much longer?
Where you live in Brisbane could determine whether you are diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.
- Catherine Strohfeldt
- Editorial
- Social media
The sunburnt country turned things around. But it can’t stop now
Although Australia’s public health response to skin cancer risk should be celebrated, there are real and founded concerns that the gains made could be lost.
- The Herald's View
Jen’s teenage summers were all about ‘being brown’. Decades later, she fears nothing has changed
With her daughter now 16, melanoma patient Jen Benfield is worried by the attitudes towards tanning still held by the next generation.
- Mary Ward
- Updated
- Vale
Faith and conviction: Tributes flow for late Liberal minister Kevin Andrews
The former defence and immigration minister and longest continuously serving member of federal parliament has died at 69 after a year-long cancer battle.
- Ashleigh McMillan
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
Public hospitals get green light on robotic surgery – but there’s a catch
The technology is favoured by many surgeons, but it’s expensive and hospitals face hurdles paying for it.
- Henrietta Cook
‘This is a great win’: Forever chemicals to be filtered from tap water
A mobile filtration plant will clean up tap-water supplies tainted by a plume of cancer-linked “forever chemicals” in the Blue Mountains.
- Carrie Fellner
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