The price government puts on a year of your life is $50,000
Source: Herald Sun – Sue Dunlevy. The expert government committee that decides which medicines deserve…
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Half of all UK cancer patients now survive at least 10 years
Fifty per cent of people diagnosed with cancer today will survive their disease for at…
Poor quality of life doesn’t predict low survival rates in high-risk lung cancer patients undergoing surgery
High-risk operable lung cancer patients have poorer quality of life scores than the normal U.S.…
Loss of Y Chromosome Increases Risk for Cancer and Early Death
Source: IFLS – Lisa Winter. Photo: Theis Kofoed Hjorth used via CC BY-SA 4.0 Though overall life…
Former premier Nick Greiner has male mastectomy after cancer diagnosis
Source: SMH – Jill Margo. Photo: Peter Braig Former NSW premier Nick Greiner has undergone an…
The signs of male breast cancer
Source: SMH – Amy Corderoy. Prof Ian Olver. Photo: Sylvia Liber. The news this morning that former…
Expert health committee recommends cervical screening overhaul
Source: The Age – Dan Harrison. Women would have their first screening for cervical cancer at…
Cancer vaccine: generating immunity against tumour vessel protein in mouse study
Promising New Approach Targets Cancer Protein to Slow Tumour Growth Sometimes a full-on assault isn’t…
European Medicines Agency issues alert after vials of Herceptin stolen from Italian hospitals
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has been informed that vials of Herceptin (trastuzumab), thought to…
Cancer stem cells linked to drug resistance
Discovery of previously undefined molecular pathway is step toward novel clinical trial Most drugs used…