Researchers have found that Australia and New Zealand have the highest incidence rate of breast cancer in the world. The Global Patterns and Trends in Breast Cancer Incidence and Mortality report uses 2022 data from 185 countries to project the ...

Expressions of interest are now open for Aurora Education Foundation's First Nations Cancer Scholarship, a $5.9 million investment to support Indigenous health professionals and researchers complete postgraduate study or research in a cancer-related field. The collaboration, between the Albanese government, ...

The Albanese Government is committing a further $166m for an Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program, with $74.5m of it allocated to cancer care nurses. The investment is set to improve cancer outcomes across Australia, from cancer prevention and early ...

A recent report on the chemical composition of 17 e-liquid vapes has uncovered alarming nicotine levels and other toxic chemicals, such as arsenic and formaldehyde. The QLD Health and Environment Committee began the tests after mounting concerns that flavoured vapes, ...

Nurses and other health professionals could be administering saliva swabs in healthcare settings to predict someone's risk of developing cancer in the near future. University of Melbourne researcher Sibel Saya kicked off an Australian-first study earlier this month that could ...

An Australian first medicinal cannabis trial has offered new treatment pathways for advanced cancer patients.  Mater researchers observed the efficacy in cannabidiol (CBD) oil to provide symptom relief in more than 150 participants, who they say showed vast improvement in ...

Australian researchers have renewed concerns that people are increasingly being diagnosed with cancers that will do them no harm if left undetected or untreated, following new research into five cancer types. Lead author Professor Paul Glasziou, from Bond University, looked at data ...

Bad luck. That’s what over a quarter of Australia cancer patients put their cancer diagnosis down to. In the paper ‘What Caused my Cancer?', published in Cancer Control, researchers asked 585 cancer patients in Australia and Vietnam about 25 possible ...

A report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) shows that the number of cancer cases is likely to rise to 145,000 this year, three times the rates reported in 1982. However, the report also shows that five-year ...

Mei Krishnasamy has a strong Cardiff accent that belies her many years in Melbourne. The Welsh native has been living in Australia on and off since the early 2000s, and since 2016 has been the inaugural chair of cancer nursing ...