This Month
How women can reduce the risk of breast cancer by 50pc
The science is sound but is not widely known that many women at increased risk of breast cancer can halve the risk with “anti-hormone” drugs.
- Jill Margo
The nine things every man needs to know about prostate cancer now
Experts at the cutting edge of new research into the causes and treatments answer the questions you might be afraid to ask.
- Catalina Stogdon
April
OpenAI’s model all but matches doctors in assessing eye problems
Ophthalmology has been a big focus of efforts to put AI to clinical use and fix obstacles to take-up, such as the tendency of models to ‘hallucinate’ by creating fictitious data.
- Michael Peel
Volpara Health takeover set to sail through shareholder vote
South Korean suitor Lunit moved to acquire the breast cancer detection medtech last year, entering into a scheme of arrangement with the board in December.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Revolutionary app offers vital prostate cancer info
A new online web app put out by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia aims to help those living, recovering and at risk of the disease.
- Sophia McCaughan
March
Multivitamins can help survival from bowel cancer
A study examining the dose-related influence of multivitamins on non-metastatic colorectal cancer is believed to be the first of its kind.
- Jill Margo
The five factors behind rising rates of cancer in under 40s
Global cases in the under 50s are also rising rapidly, increasing by 79 per cent between 1990 and 2019 according to recent research.
- David Cox
- Analysis
- Royal family
Princess Catherine and the power of a cancer diagnosis
This year began as an annus horribilis for the royal family, but compassion coupled with a respectful fear of cancer, changed the narrative.
- Jill Margo
- Analysis
- Royalty
What Princess Kate’s ‘preventative chemotherapy’ means
With metastatic cancer, chemotherapy is used to make people more comfortable. With earlier stages of cancer, like Princess Kate’s, it aims to increase the chances of cure.
- Updated
- Jill Margo
Research we’re watching: pancreatic cancer, dementia, Arctic ice
We look at recent research in: pancreatic cancer; three-dimensional processors; an ice-free Arctic; a dementia breakthrough; and a new cash crop for Australia.
- Alana Piper
February
How the risk of cancer changes with age
The type of cancers that affect us in old age tend to strike different organs and have very different underlying causes, compared with the ones that strike people in their youth.
- David Cox
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
GenesisCare emerges from bankruptcy, cuts deal with government
The country’s largest cancer treatment group had charged patients for treatment when it was required by the federal government to only bulk bill them.
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
How these company bosses handled their cancer diagnoses
These bosses know all too well what King Charles is going through, having been given their own confronting news.
- Sally Patten
- Opinion
- Royal family
The King’s cancer is a secret. Here’s what the clues suggest
The nature of the King’s cancer has not been disclosed, but from limited evidence, experts suggest bladder cancer is a leading option.
- Updated
- Jill Margo
Austin says cancer diagnosis was a ‘gut punch,’ apologises for secrecy
Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin says he did not direct his staff to withhold his recent cancer diagnosis from the White House.
- Missy Ryan and Dan Lamothe
January
Scientists who saved thousands of lives named Australians of the Year
Professors Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer helped thousands of people survive skin cancer with their revolutionary melanoma treatment.
- Tess Ikonomou
November 2023
Lenders come up with Plan B for GenesisCare US sale process
The company says improved trading conditions and additional funding mean it may keep some of the assets if pricing expectations are not met.
- Jemima Whyte and Carrie LaFrenz
GenesisCare’s first US clinics are offloaded in US bankruptcy
GenesisCare has 300 radiation therapy centres and integrated medical offices that are being sold in the Chapter 11 process.
- Carrie LaFrenz
September 2023
- Exclusive
- Healthcare
GenesisCare business comes back to life, won’t offset payments bungle
The collapsed cancer services group will likely split its US assets ahead of a sale.
- Updated
- Carrie LaFrenz and Jemima Whyte
August 2023
- Analysis
- Higher Education Awards
Winning strategy: Bringing AI to the task of medical imaging
Comment provided by the winner of the Research Commercialisation Award, the University of Sydney.
- Patrick Brennan