9 July 2018
Research: Hope for liver cancer treatment An Australian medical breakthrough offers liver cancer sufferers hope for a more effective...
Skin Cancer: Drug trials successful in stopping melanoma
Patients with melanoma have been given new hope by ground breaking Australian research that could halve the mortality rate from the...
Research: New vaccine stops 90 per cent of cervical cancers
The drug known as Gardasil has been administered to Australian teenagers since 2007, protecting them from strains of the sexually...
Research: Breast drug for prostate
A breast cancer drug could be used to stop prostate cancer returning, a study has found. The drug acts by stopping tumours carrying out...
Research: Cannabis hope as cancer help
Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute Medical Oncology Unit director Niall Tebbutt told a sold-out Medicinal Cannabis Symposium in...
Research: New hope for men who lose potency following surgery
Melbourne specialists are using a novel technique to try to restore potency to men after surgery for prostate cancer. Results of their...
Treatment: Scientists create minute ‘drills’ to kill cancer cells
Minute machines that can kill cancer cells in just 60 seconds by drilling into them have been created by scientists. The “nanomachines”...
Supportive Care: Medicinal cannabis gets green light
Tasmanians will have access to medicinal cannabis from today under a new Controlled Access Scheme. Health Minister, Michael Ferguson said...
Skin Cancer: Insurers get under skin of doctors on surgery costs
The Health Department has been forced to intervene in a dispute between health funds, doctors and private hospitals over skin procedures...
Research: Hope in cancer fight
Scientists have new hope in the fight against cancer after finding a treatment that works better than chemotherapy. Powerful chemotherapy...
