The only option for these cancer patients was a surgery with a less than 50 per cent success rate. This is the inside story of an Australian breakthrough that got the world talking.
Sophia Noelle Thompson thought her headache was due to stress from her school exams. Instead it was hiding a horror disease that could now claim her life at any time.
The stories of Graham Page and Ian Hart in South Australia highlight a major failure of our health system which lags the world in funding lifesaving treatments.
Being told you’re terminal is only scary if you know how long you have left, claims mum Kathryn Simile. After all, “you could be hit by a bus tomorrow”.
If you’ve been putting your breast check off, now is the time.
She went to the doctor over 20 times in one year, before finally being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
George Lawrence-Brown thought his sore nipple was just ageing – it couldn’t be breast cancer, because men didn’t get that. Did they?
Olivia Newton-John was fearless in her public campaign of living with cancer and dedicated herself to raising awareness and funds.
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