Screening: Genetic trials target rare-cancer patients
Relatives of Australians battling rare cancers will have full-body scans to detect the disease “silently” lurking in their bodies under a...
Screening: Life, and mammograms, begin at 40
Forty is the optimal age for women to start having regular mammograms to reduce the number of breast cancer deaths, the findings of a US...
Screening: Local contractor chose to build PET scanner facility
The $6 million project to construct the building accommodating the Territory’s own PET scanner has been awarded to Darwin-based company...
Screening: Health at risk
Tens of thousands of Victorians are missing out on vital but costly tests to detect cancer, birth defects and other serious conditions...
Screening: A screen test fail
Despite screening being able to detect bowel cancer long before symptoms begin, only two in five Victorians undergo the test available to...
