Women push for access to surgery to reduce breast cancer risk
Many Australian women with a high risk of breast cancer have been forced to wait in limbo for access to risk-reducing surgery. Now they are taking their fight to Canberra.
Cancer
Last hope: Why it’s costing me $20,000 a month to stay alive
It’s Jemma Juckes’ last throw of the dice as she awaits a decision on whether a new cancer drug will be added to the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. Her life depends on it.
Young family’s baby cancer nightmare
An Aussie family have revealed their heartbreak and horror after their two-month-old baby boy was diagnosed with a rare cancer – while still in his mother’s womb.
I fought cancer twice but it was my unborn baby who saved my life
A Melbourne mum has revealed how she was saved from a rare, life-threatening tumour by a twist of fate, saying if she hadn’t been pregnant, she “may not have woken up the next morning”.
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‘Her liver was falling apart’: World-first cancer surgery saves Aussie mum
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.
‘I thought my headaches were Year 12 stress … I was wrong’
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.
‘Sold my house’: My $70k cancer bill was free for others
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.
‘I have cancer but I don’t want to know what stage’
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”.
Experts are calling for the mammogram screening age to be brought forward
What has sparked the change?
Mum’s health scare: ‘I had no symptoms, but screening saved my life’
A mother of four says her surgeon was ‘truly shocked to see a polyp so big in someone her age’ after she underwent a screening following a family member’s cancer scare.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have issued a statement following Kate Middleton’s cancer news
King Charles has also broken his silence
‘Save my son’: Aussie families’ $300k desperate plea
Sydney boy Zai, 9, is among Aussie children in the fight of their lives and a government scheme meant to save them is forcing families to come up with insane amounts of money. Here’s why.
‘We had 12 days’: How I lost my mum to cancer
Jaymee Williams has revealed her own personal battle after the shock early death of her mother, amid new findings into the impact losing a mother has on adult daughters.
Why Covid could cause a cancer surge
A surprising fallout
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