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In Dying for Sex, Michelle Williams plays a woman who, on discovering she has terminal cancer, pursues sexual adventure.

When faced with death, some women don’t seek comfort - they seek desire

When most people receive a life-threatening diagnosis, the last thing on their minds is sex. But a new show challenges the standard narrative on cancer and desire.

  • Mercedes Maguire

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Ann Capling used a free bowel screening kit that helped detect a problem early.

The areas in Victoria where rates of this cancer are at their highest

Search your area to see how its bowel cancer rate compares with the national average.

  • Hannah Kennelly and Broede Carmody
Shar Christoff Harris with her son.

‘It’s getting worse and worse’: Dying Perth mother stuck in ED for 36 hours

She posted a video after hospital staff were forced to park her at the end of a hallway and put up a makeshift curtain while they waited for a bed in a ward.

  • Sarah Brookes
King Charles was hospitalised in London after experiencing side effects from ongoing cancer treatment.

King Charles hospitalised after side effects from cancer treatment

The 76-year-old monarch was “greatly disappointed” to cancel public appearances scheduled for Friday.

  • Rob Harris
Rebecca Aliberti with daughters Shekinah, Makaysha and Kasharna and husband Francis.

Hospital patients lose free family accommodation for new apartments

The Victorian government stripped free housing from breast cancer patients and parents of ICU babies months ago, with no alternative system in place.

  • Sophie Aubrey

‘Will I have mattered?’ What legacy means for the child-free

We are in the midst of the greatest intergenerational wealth transfer ever. But for those without children, deciding where their money should go is a complex affair.

  • Lauren Ironmonger
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Professor Richard Scolyer is recovering at home with a long scar on the left side of his head.

Former Australian of the Year down to ‘months, not years’ after brain tumour returns

Surgery has revealed that Professor Richard Scolyer has had a recurrence of his highly aggressive glioblastoma.

  • Garry Maddox
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The retsina diet will have to wait

It’s all Greek to feed.

Professor Richard Scolyer at the Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney University.

Former Australian of the Year heads into brain surgery after devastating scan

World-renowned pathologist and researcher Richard Scolyer is facing an operation to explore fears of a lethal tumour growing back.

  • Garry Maddox
Queensland Deputy Commissioner Steve Gollschewski.

Police commissioner on leave after shock cancer diagnosis

The Queensland Police Service confirmed the news on Friday afternoon, through a brief statement from its media unit.

  • Cameron Atfield

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