Oncology

Australian researchers are hoping to develop a world-first blood and tissue test which could help identify the early signs of skin cancer.

Organ transplant recipients have a shocking 80 per cent higher risk of skin cancer due to the immune system suppressing medication

A new report has found those diagnosed with some cancers through screening are less likely to die from them than those who are not. Australians

Despite a drop in cancer mortality rates in NSW an estimated 15,000 people will still lose their lives to the disease in 2018, the state's latest data reveals.

Cancer Australia has produced the world's first national data on diagnosis and survival rates relating to 16 common childhood cancers.

The Leukaemia Foundation has today announced a new national multi-million dollar research strategy to beat blood cancers like leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma.

Cancer patients and oncologists are calling for more cancer drugs to be subsidised on the PBS amid fears thousands of people are missing out on treatments because

A new type of drug that puts cancer cells to "sleep" has been discovered by Australian scientists, raising hopes that it could one day be a powerful new

A new trial designed in Melbourne to detect ovarian cancer will be able to help hundreds of Australian women, a report says. Australian women

Australian scientists have discovered that changes to the structure in part of our chromosomes could be to blame for cancer and some genetic diseases. Controlling

Plans for the world's first blood test to detect early-stage melanoma have been unveiled by Australian scientists. Early trials of the

Toddler Kristian Kozul's aggressive brain tumour has stopped growing since joining a life-saving cancer trial being rolled out across Australia.

The federal government will subsidise a cancer drug that gives hope to mantle cell lymphoma patients who suffer a relapse along with three other cancer drugs.

A new blood test developed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer may help improve the early detection of lung cancer among smokers.

As many as one-in-three lung cancer patients visit their GP multiple times before eventually presenting to emergency, acutely unwell, prior to their diagnosis, a Cancer

Melbourne man Peter Gourlay has funded his own cancer treatment for stage three melanoma but the costs are prohibitive. After witnessing family

A survey shows less than one in three Australian men consider themselves at risk of skin cancer, raising concern among dermatologists. Australian

A clinical trial has shown patients with advanced skin cancer respond well to immunotherapy drug Cemiplimab. Australian doctors have made a

Patients with drug resistant forms of breast cancer and some forms of pancreatic cancer may have new hope, thanks to a new drug first developed at Griffith and now being trialled

A new report shows people who don't participate in the National Bowel Cancer Screening program are 13 per cent more likely to die from the disease.