The Oncology Podcast: Cancer and COVID-19 with Professor Eva Segelov
A New Paradigm – Keeping Patients Safe From Huge Competing Risks of Death In today’s…
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COVID-19 takes its toll on kids with cancer
As the coronavirus pandemic triggers greater isolation measures, thousands of children with cancer and their…
Shorter radiotherapy treatment for bowel cancer patients during COVID-19
An international panel of cancer experts has recommended a one-week course of radiotherapy and delaying…
Immunotherapy prior to surgery is effective in colon cancer
Patients with colon cancer, but no distant metastases yet, can benefit from a short course…
Fibre consumption linked to lower breast cancer risk
Consuming a diet high in fibre was linked with a reduced incidence of breast cancer…
Time to scale-up prevention over detection of skin cancers
Investing in the promotion of daily sunscreen use and other sun protection strategies in Australia…
Understanding brain tumours in children
Medulloblastomas are among the most common malignant brain tumours affecting children. They spread from the…
Breastfeeding linked to lower ovarian cancer risk
An international study involving researchers from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute has found women who…
Treating COVID-19 in a patient with multiple myeloma
A case study of a patient in Wuhan, China, suggests that the immunosuppressant tocilizumab may…
Eye and the scalpel: Ocular tumours easier to diagnose noninvasively
Australia is the sunniest continent on Earth—which is why it also has the highest rates…