16 September 2011 More than seven thousand Australians die each year of lung cancer but not all are smokers. Flickr/Social is better Lung cancer patients deserve greater support, whether they smoke or not By Ian Olver, Cancer Council Australia Each year 40,000 Australians die from cancer-related illness – the number one cause being lung cancer. Surprised? You’re not alone. According to a recent Galaxy poll which asked asked Australians which…
23 January 2012 Dead keen for a smoke: puffing on with lung and colorectal cancer By Matthew Thompson, The Conversation About one in seven people diagnosed with lung cancer report that they keep smoking, as do one in 11 colorectal cancer patients…
23 August 2011 Lung cancer breakthrough yields new love hormone insights By Sunanda Creagh, The Conversation Scientists have discovered a new way of controlling a hormone that stimulates cancer growth and, along the way, gained new…
29 October 2012 Coal-dependent economy brings health and social risks University of Sydney The effects of coal mining go beyond its well publicised environmental impacts, as revealed by the discovery of more immediate…
17 September 2012 Smokers with lung cancer have ten times the mutations Washington University in St Louis A new study has found that lung cancer patients with a history of smoking have ten times the genetic mutations in their tumors…
