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New research finds rural children cope better when a parent is diagnosed with cancer if they are not burdened with adult problems.
Topics: cancer, family-and-children, rural, renmark-5341
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Sick firefighters who worked or trained at the Country Fire Authority's contaminated Fiskville base could be compensated under a dedicated Victorian Government redress scheme.
Topics: fires, emergency-planning, state-parliament, cancer, ballan-3342
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Topics: medical-research, cancer, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedScientists at a Melbourne cancer institute say a new "liquid biopsy" blood test will prove life saving for sufferers of certain types of cancer by saving precious time between diagnosis and treatment.
Topics: medical-research, cancer, doctors-and-medical-professionals, melbourne-3000, vic, heidelberg-3084
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| UpdatedDiesel exhaust may be causing fatal lung cancer in underground miners at a rate up to 38 times the accepted occupational risk, according to a new study.
Topics: mining-environmental-issues, mining-rural, health, lung-cancer, cancer, wa, australia
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| UpdatedPapua New Guinea's only cancer treatment machine is back in operation.
Topics: health, cancer, pacific, papua-new-guinea
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When Brad Haddin’s daughter was diagnosed with cancer, his career as a Test cricketer was thrown into doubt. He’s now retired from elite sport and relishing life as a hands-on father.
Topics: autobiography, family-and-children, health, child-health-and-behaviour, cancer, sport, cricket, ashes, onedayseries, twenty20, australia
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| UpdatedAlarming statistics showing Indigenous Australians are 30 per cent more likely to die from cancer than other Australians and 65 per cent more likely if they live in rural or remote areas prompt a new approach by Cancer Council WA.
Topics: indigenous-policy, cancer, healthcare-facilities, perth-6000
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Forty-three per cent of Australian women are not being screened regularly enough for cervical cancer, a fatal disease that is almost completely preventable, according to the Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation.
Topics: cervical-and-vulval-cancers, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, science-and-technology, melbourne-3000, vic, wa, tas, sa, qld, nsw, nt, act, australia
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Canadian singer Michael Buble says he and his wife are "devastated" after learning their three-year-old son has been diagnosed with cancer.
Topics: cancer, health, family, arts-and-entertainment, united-states
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The New South Wales Government is running months behind schedule on its medicinal cannabis trials, with the trial for terminally ill cancer patients now unlikely to begin this year.
Topics: cancer, cannabis, health, medical-research, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, nsw, australia
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Topics: cancer, state-parliament, health-administration, community-and-society, orange-2800
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| UpdatedA parliamentary inquiry hears that health chiefs are uncertain whether the total number of patients affected by low dosing of chemotherapy in western New South Wales will ever be known.
Topics: cancer, state-parliament, health-administration, community-and-society, orange-2800, bathurst-2795, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedThe oncologist at the centre of the St Vincent's Hospital chemotherapy scandal, John Grygiel, says other specialists were giving low doses of chemotherapy to patients.
Topics: cancer, health-policy, sydney-2000, nsw
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| UpdatedA senior clinician at Sydney's St Vincent's hospital continued to refer patients to an oncologist despite knowing he was deliberately under-dosing chemotherapy patients, a NSW inquiry hears.
Topics: health-policy, cancer, sydney-2000, nsw, sutherland-2232
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The State Government is accused of covering up the full extent of low-dosing of chemotherapy patients in the NSW central west.
Topics: cancer, orange-2800, bathurst-2795
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Hundreds of RAAF workers who were exposed to toxic chemicals during F-111 maintenance programs could face a cancer risk up to 30 per cent higher than their colleagues, an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report finds.
Topics: air-force, cancer, federal-government, defence-forces, activism-and-lobbying, amberley-4306, ipswich-4305, qld, australia
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Cancer claims the life of Adelaide judge Rosemary Davey after a long legal career, including work as a defence barrister in the Snowtown serial killings case.
Topics: judges-and-legal-profession, law-crime-and-justice, death, community-and-society, cancer, breast-cancer, diseases-and-disorders, health, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedPatients with rare cancers ramp up pressure on the Federal Government to change "unfair" regulations which see some patients forced to pay thousands more for medication than those with more common cancers.
Topics: cancer, health-policy, diseases-and-disorders, health, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Scientists say their use of technology inspired by Google Earth is giving them a better understanding of how cancer cells evade the drugs meant to neutralise them.
Topics: cancer, diseases-and-disorders, medical-research, health, research, science-and-technology, australia
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A new study supports a Federal Government plan to start screening for cervical cancer from age 25, with earlier tests having little effect on the cancer rate.
Topics: cancer, cervical-and-vulval-cancers, womens-health, medical-research, australia
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Doctors in north Queensland have developed a new plan they say could revolutionise cancer treatment in the bush, by extending access to clinical trials to cancer patients in remote areas where there is little to no access.
Topics: health, healthcare-facilities, health-policy, rural, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, qld, australia
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| UpdatedAmong the petitioners at the United Nations Special Political and Decolonization Committee, which is currently meeting in New York, was Tahiti resident Yves Conroy.
Topics: nuclear-issues, cancer, pacific, french-polynesia, france
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| UpdatedActor Ben Stiller reveals he was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years ago, saying a controversial test saved his life.
Topics: health, arts-and-entertainment, actor, cancer, diseases-and-disorders, united-states