GenesisCare expands with $35m Northern Beaches cancer centre
16 April, 2024The relocated centre has expanded its services with a new radiation therapy offering and access to clinical trials for eligible patients.
New Precision Care Clinic at NSW's Prince of Wales Hospital
27 March, 2024The clinic will provide personalised and tailored care for cancer and hopes to facilitate rapid adoption of precision medicine research into routine public health care.
New breast cancer tech unveiled at Baringa Private Hospital
06 March, 2024Technology for breast cancer treatment can now be accessed by patients on the NSW mid north coast.
Targeted prostate cancer treatment hopes to minimise side effects
23 February, 2024The Icon Cancer Centres in Victoria are using focal low dose rate (LDR) brachytherapy to provide highly targeted radiation for prostate cancer.
How to shield breast cancer patients from lymphoedema
06 February, 2024Global researchers have published a clinical guide on how and where to roll out evidence-based interventions to help prevent lymphoedema for cancer survivors.
Providing better access and more choice for cancer care
01 February, 2024Cancer patients undergoing treatment on Brisbane's northside are set to benefit from a new, multimillion-dollar onsite radiation therapy service.
Making cancer outcome equity a reality
01 February, 2024Christine Cockburn, CEO, Rare Cancers Australia, reflects on care disparities across populations and the role of personalised medicine in improving outcomes.
Improving care for people with cancer cachexia
31 January, 2024 by Vanessa Vaughan*Cancer cachexia affects 50–80% of people, but the condition often goes unrecognised, leaving patients and even healthcare providers grappling with its elusive nature.
$12.5m towards cervical cancer elimination
24 November, 2023Funded by an Australian Government regional aid grant, the EPICC consortium will work to eliminate cervical cancer in the Indo-Pacific region.
Aust project could lead to early detection of deadly cancer
20 November, 2023The project will build on WEHI's breakthrough discovery of proteins that can identify early pancreatic cancer in patients.
Immunotherapy trial could offer hope to pancreatic cancer patients
13 November, 2023This Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, the GI Cancer Institute is calling for donors to back the launch of a potentially life-changing clinical trial in Australia.
Slade Health opens new compounding facility in SA
08 November, 2023Cancer care provider Icon Group's compounding arm, Slade Health, has opened a new TGA licensed facility in Woodville, South Australia.
Hospital–university partnership increases access to rare cancer care
27 October, 2023Access to personalised cancer treatments and the sharing of genetic testing information are among the aims of a new Monash Partners Comprehensive Cancer Consortium program.
Potential genetic screening for nodular melanoma
06 October, 2023Researchers from the University of Queensland and The Alfred hospital have identified gene variants which may contribute to people being at higher risk for nodular melanoma.
Study confirms link between baldness and skin cancer
05 October, 2023The QIMR Berghofer research team has examined evidence that established people with hair loss can be more susceptible to skin cancers.
