With around 1 in 50 people diagnosed with cancer each year, many will face the difficult task of sharing news of their diagnosis with children. Here’s what to consider.
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That depends on a number of factors, including the cancer you had initially, as well as your genes, environment and lifestyle.
New research highlights common threads in cancer survivors’ stories, including the effort it takes to navigate the health system, even for a diagnosis, and the struggle to fund unsubsidised treatments.
By encouraging patients to adopt preventive lifestyles and have screenings and tests, silent cancers don’t have to be a grave threat to health
There are many approaches to treating cancer. Which ones work best is determined on an individual basis and informed by each tumor.
Identifying proteins that are only present in bodily fluids when a patient has breast cancer could provide a way to screen healthy people for the disease.
Treatment for lung cancer patients is the same for everyone, regardless of the risk of recurrence. The use of a new technology could refine diagnosis.
Even families in conflict can be a strong source of support for a loved one with cancer.
From helping surgeons to carry out complex procedures to monitoring the heartbeat of the chronically ill, the use of AI in cancer care is set to be game-changing.
There’s a lot to learn, understand and organise when you receive a cancer diagnosis. But you don’t need to do it all at once.
Large new study identifies very early risk factors for pancreatic cancer.
New research shows five bacteria are associated with an increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer.
In future health emergencies and possibly further waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, caution needs to be taken when extending cancer waiting times for reasons unrelated to patients’ health-care needs.
The NanoMslide causes potentially cancerous cells to ‘light up’ with vivid colour contrast. It has already been successful in finding early-stage breast cancer cells in human tissue.
New studies highlight the difficulties cancer patients have when discussing their illness with family and medical teams.
Long non-coding RNAs were long thought to serve no purpose. Now, researchers think differently.
Over a 26 year period, cancer diagnoses have risen by 22%, but deaths from cancer have decreased by an equal amount.
Alex Trebek announced this week that his pancreatic cancer is in remission. A pancreatic cancer specialist explains the difficulties of the disease as well as new treatment advances.
Artificial intelligence is being used to diagnose breast cancers from early mammogram tests.
A new meta-analysis of 39 studies from around the world reveals a major disadvantage.
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Professor of Physics, La Trobe University
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Professor of Primary Care Cancer Research, The University of Melbourne
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NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Cancer Biology, University of South Australia
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Melanoma, Edith Cowan University
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Senior Fellow, University of Leeds
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PhD Student Studying Pancreatic Cancer, Cardiff University
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Professor of Surgery, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University
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Professor and Laboratory Head, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Professor (Cancer Pharmacology), The Open University
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Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
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Senior Lecturer in Cancer Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Reader in Biomedical Sciences, University of Hull
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Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry and Biochemistry, Clarkson University
