Tag: cancer treatment
Huge win for people affected by cancer in the Riverina who now will be able to access free cancer treatments.
Chris knows the importance of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program because he credits it with saving his life.
A new report has revealed the key breakthroughs and milestones that cancer research has achieved in the last 20 years.
Our accommodation services helped one cancer patient continue her breast cancer patient during the 2019 bushfires.
Debbie Shore’s story of how COVID-19 has made her daughter Nicole’s breast cancer treatment more stressful for their whole family.
Professor Jennifer Martin has been researching into personalised chemotherapy dosing for some time. Now Professor Martin and her team are moving into the trial stage of their research. The dosing study known as the PREDICT (Pathway of Research to Evaluation of Dose-Individualised Cancer Therapy) Program uses new technology to find the ideal chemotherapy dosage for […]
Professor Richard Lock has been a cancer biologist for over 30 years and specialises in leukemia research. Cancer Council NSW has played an important role in his research journey with his first major Australian grant funded by the organisation. Since that first grant his research has advanced, and in 2011 he was awarded another Cancer […]
Thanks to advancements in cancer research, new treatment options and drugs are being tested and developed to improve outcomes for cancer patients. Targeted therapy is a promising drug treatment that attacks specific features of cancer cells, known as molecular targets, to stop the cancer growing and spreading. The development of targeted therapy drugs has led […]
We discuss the pros and cons of having a breast reconstruction and when the best time for you to do this might be.
We discuss cancer related fatigue and explore why some people recover quickly while others do not.