Cancer Council Queensland is the state’s leading non-government community organisation in cancer control, focussing on prevention, detection, research and treatment. The organisation was established in 1961 as the Queensland Cancer Fund, in response to an increasing need for cancer-related services across the state.
Childhood deaths from cancer have decreased by nearly 40% in the past 15 years in Australia. But some types of childhood cancer have shown little improvement.
The predictive tool might help women make decisions about changing their lifestyle.
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Researchers in the United States have developed a new model to predict women’s risk of developing breast, uterine and ovarian cancer, based on individual lifestyle factors. These three cancers make up…
Better diets and more exercise could prevent 43,000 cancer diagnoses a year.
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Cancer is one of the most common public health threats facing Australians and accounts for nearly one-fifth of the disease burden in this country. The direct cost to the Australian community is approaching…
Prostate cancer survival rates for rural and urban men have widened.
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Australia has seen many major advances in disease screening, treatment and surgery over the past few decades. But this progress hasn’t been shared equally around the country. People living outside major…
CEO of Cancer Council Queensland; Secretary of International Pyscho-Oncology Society; President of Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Control, Cancer Council Queensland