Telstra wins contract for new National Cancer Screening Register
By Lucy Carter – ABC News. Telstra has been awarded a lucrative Federal Government contract to build…
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Facing my fear: telling a cancer patient he was going to die
By Jalal Baig – The Guardian. I was reluctant to let a young patient know he had…
Scientists show commonly prescribed painkiller slows cancer growth
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have found that one…
Coping with active surveillance anxiety in prostate cancer
Men with prostate cancer who are under close medical surveillance reported significantly greater resilience and…
Surrogate endpoints poor proxy for survival in cancer drug approval process
Surrogate endpoints used to support the majority of new cancer drugs approved in the U.S.…
New 3D hydrogel biochips prove to be superior in detecting bowel cancer at early stages
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular…
Study shows patients require less painkilling medication after breast-cancer surgery if they have opiate-free anesthesia
New research presented at Euroanaesthesia 2016 (London 27-30 May) shows that patients undergoing breast cancer…
GFC linked to over 260,000 additional cancer deaths
Unemployment and reduced public-sector health spending following the 2008 global economic crisis were associated with…
Palliative and hospice care lacking among dying cancer patients in US
Medical societies, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, recommend that patients with advanced cancer…
Paper outlines image-guided radiation recommendations
The Faculty of Radiation Oncology in Australia and New Zealand has issued recommendations for the…