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Fiona Dews (at left) and Rose Glassock at the Sydney International Regatta Centre in Penrith, NSW. After surviving breast cancer “the dragon boats brought us together”, says Dews.

‘Go us! Look at what we can do!’ The water sport empowering breast cancer survivors

The ancient sport of dragon boat racing is breathing a new spirit of joy and camaraderie into these rowers’ lives.

  • Sue Williams

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Cath McLardy says he fear of recurrence of her breast cancer is with her all the time.

This breast cancer drug used to cost $3700 a month. From today, it will be much cheaper

A new medication found to reduce the chance of the most common types of breast cancer recurring will be available to many more Australians living with the disease.

  • Wendy Tuohy
BreastScreen clinics and a mobile van is available in Sydney.

Big change for BreastScreen NSW services this month

BreastScreen NSW services will begin reporting breast density, amid emerging evidence that women with dense breasts have a higher cancer risk.

  • Nigel Gladstone
With surgical enhancement to breasts – a powerful erogenous zone – “a woman may gain the power to elicit male desire, but in so doing she relegates herself to the erotic sidelines.”

Forget ‘crowd-pleasing’ breasts – for more joy, focus on feeling: a surgeon’s view

A doctor contemplates what is, she believes, the most exploited – and serially underestimated – female body part of all.

  • Gabriel Weston
Katie Taubert, Nicole Huseby, and Sandra Mills attended the Jane McGrath High Tea.

For these three friends, raising money for cancer is deeply personal

For the first time, the Pink Test at the Border-Gavaskar series raised money for all forms of cancer, bringing in more than $8 million for charity.

  • Nick Newling
Jade Wendt was midway through chemotherapy for breast cancer when her husband David was diagnosed with renal cancer.

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
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Doctors dismissed Brendan Moynihan as too young to have a “seroius” health issue.

Lifestyle and the ‘lag effect’: What’s causing the rise of early onset cancer

Since 1990, cancer in people aged 18 to 49 has increased by 80 per cent worldwide. But why?

  • Sarah Berry
Peter Hersey and Xu Dong Zhang, seen here in 20099.

University investigates papers by top Australian cancer researchers after retractions

The University of Newcastle has launched a review into several scientific papers co-authored by two leading researchers after integrity concerns were raised.

  • Liam Mannix
1C: Close up of the right breast shows nipple retraction, fissural defects especially of the upper and medial areola (circle). At the upper medial quadrant (one star) and towards the axilla (two stars) small bulging lumps are seen.

Michelangelo ‘painted a woman’s breast cancer’ in the Sistine Chapel

The naked woman was brought to life by the Renaissance figure in his iconic fresco, known as The Flood, painted between 1508 and 1512.

  • Josephine McKenna
Actor Olivia Munn stars in the latest campaign for underwear brand Skims.

‘I’m done being insecure’: Olivia Munn bares mastectomy scars

The actor has spoken about her decision to show her mastectomy scars in the latest campaign for Skims.

  • Lauren Ironmonger

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