Much of the fear of cancer arises from a lack of control, so I’m at my happiest when a patient with a new diagnosis comes in bewildered and shaken and leaves my office feeling a modicum of control.
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New immunotherapy drugs that enhance the body’s natural ability to fight cancer offer several key advantages over previous treatments.
Those buying and selling human breast milk online could be spreading disease without reaping any of the supposed health benefits.
Cancer cases are up, deaths are down. What the figures tell us about the second leading cause of disease.
Take two of medicine’s great foes and pit them against each other.
If you can’t find the specific T cells you need to fight a cancer, make them.
New research could into nanoparticles could help deliver drugs straight to the site of tumours and make them more effective when they get there.
Researchers have been talking about the dangers of overdiagnosis for some time. But now a national survey shows most people aren’t told about the risk it poses to their health – and they want to know.
A growing body of research evidence shows being married greatly increases patients’ chances of being cured of cancer.
We tend to assume a direct relation between an irritant and a part of the body – this isn’t necessarily true.
After years of conflicting research and often extreme opinions on iron, it turns out that like anything else that is a benefit in moderation, in excess it is a detriment.
While I can’t fault Carrie Bickmore for trying to get attention for the disease that prematurely killed her husband, her move does raise questions about how research should be funded.
The theory that some rare cancer cells aren’t caught by conventional chemotherapy has divided the field.
Drugs that help the immune system recognise cancer are very promising.
Jolie Pitt has announced more surgery, this time to mitigate her risk of developing ovarian cancer. But this should ideally not have the same “Jolie effect” as her last operation.
Genetic testing for cancer will become more common and risk reducing surgery is one way to cut the risk.
How we talk about illness is an individual process but some want there to be a right and wrong way.
Cancer drug cisplatin was accidentally discovered to help treat cancer in 1965. And it’s been doing exactly that since it was approved for use in 1978.
Sarah Palin hated them and they’ve helped win Nobel prizes, so what is it about fruit flies that we should value so much?
Condition that affects appetite of terminally ill means difficulties for those who want to show their love through food.
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Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Professor, Department of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Graduate Student in Cancer Systems Biology, Rice University
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Sociology & Director, Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, University of Sydney
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Professor of Oncology, University of Tasmania
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Senior Visiting Fellow, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Professor of Physical Activity, Lifestyle, and Population Health, University of Sydney
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
