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Want to fix America’s health care? First, focus on food
Poor diet kills hundreds of thousands per year. If we want to achieve meaningful health care reform, we need to address our nation's nutrition crisis.
Alcohol increases cancer risk, but don’t trust the booze industry to give you the facts straight
A new study has found the alcohol industry deliberately misrepresenting the cancer risk of alcohol, while passing it off as health messaging.
How poverty is killing Kenya’s children with cancer
Most children who have cancer live in the developing world where their survival rate is less than 25%. In Kenya awareness about childhood cancer is low and treatment isn't always readily available.
Surgery isn’t the only option for prostate cancer yet many men aren’t offered others
Men diagnosed with prostate cancer should be given all their options for treatment before they make a decision. In Australia today, this isn't the rule, but the exception.
Harvard study strengthens link between breast cancer risk and light exposure at night
Study uses satellite data to add to growing evidence that nighttime light exposure raises risk of breast cancer, with the strongest link among young women.
Harnessing the body’s own cannabis in the fight against cancer
Harnessing the medicinal benefit of the body’s own cannabis-like substances may provide an alternative to medicinal marijuana.
A revolutionary leukaemia treatment could soon be approved – here’s what it means for patients
The gene therapy CTL019 induced complete remission in 90% of patients.
Is cancer just a question of ‘bad luck’?
Two US researchers have traced the majority of cancers to DNA replication errors during our natural cell replacement. Their finding asks for a renewed inquiry into the role of "chance" in cancer.
Private clinics’ peddling of unproven stem cell treatments is unsafe and unethical
Stem cell science continues to offer great promise. But a growing number of clinics are selling treatments without evidence that what they offer is effective – or even safe.
Suturing a divided world: How providing access to surgery drives global prosperity
Almost one-third of human disease requires surgery, but most of those people who need surgery are not getting it. Here's why we need to make surgery more accessible.
We’re not ready for the ‘silver tsunami’ of older adults living with cancer
The number of adults living with cancer is expected to triple in size by 2030. How can we prepare for this public health challenge?
Common courtesy can humanize cancer care
Cancer care is often impersonal, industrial and needlessly stressful. Allowing patients to witness personal introductions between their physicians would help ease their anxiety and build trust.
New maps reveal cancer levels across Australia, and across the social strata
Public health experts traditionally expect that the poorer you are, the more likely you are to be unwell and die before your time. But newly available data on cancer rates show that's not always true.
Cancer survivors’ fears about relapse are serious risk to their health – new findings
A twinge can be all it takes to convince patients they have a new tumour
Eight things that have changed since the smoking ban ten years ago
How stubbing out cigarettes helped to clear the air.
Three charts on: cancer rates in Australia, where liver cancer is on the rise while other types fall
While other cancer rates fall or remain static, liver cancer is on the rise. Here's why we need to start paying attention.
Why competition is key to cutting the cost of cancer drugs in South Africa
The high cost of cancer drugs in South Africa has come under the spotlight with an investigation by the Competition Commission in the country.
Gene testing for the public: a way to ward off disease, or a useless worry?
A test of all your genes for disease risk is not yet the precision diagnostic and treatment tool we hope it will one day be.
Why treating breast cancer with less may be more
Women with breast cancer often have six weeks of radiation therapy after surgery to remove the cancer. A recent study suggests that shortening that time is not only effective but also cost-saving.
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Director, Sansom Institute for Health Research; Chair of Translational Cancer Research, University of South Australia
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Nial Wheate is a Friend of The Conversation.
BPharm Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology and Speech Pathology, Curtin University; Education and Research Director, Cancer Council WA; Chair, Occupational and Environmental Cancer Committee, Cancer Council Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Medicine, UNSW
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Graduate Student in Cancer Systems Biology, Rice University
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Professor of Oncology, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Health Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Lancaster University
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Senior Research Fellow, Cancer Council Queensland
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Head of Urology at Monash Medical Centre and Associate Professor of Surgery, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Medicine, Sydney Medical School, Concord Clinical School; Medical Oncologist, Concord Cancer Centre, University of Sydney
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