General practitioners and other health care professionals can use a new online tool to assess a woman’s risk of ovarian or breast cancer based on family history.
09/02/2010
ACCORDING to a report by Nehmat Houssami in the Annals of Oncology, women who survived a primary breast cancer were more likely to survive a subsequent case if detected early.
20/03/2009
Roche is investing about 190 million Swiss Francs (approx. AUD$210 million) in a new technology that might allow breast cancer patients to self-administer cancer drugs such as Herceptin.
29/01/2010
The US Preventative Services Task Force has made recommendations on the frequency of routine mammography screening for women in certain age groups and recommends against breast self-examination.
19/11/2009
Roche has announced results from studies showing that Herceptin reduces the risk of the cancer returning by about one third in women with HER2-positive early breast cancer compared to patients receiving chemotherapy alone.
17/12/2009
BreastScreen Australia will introduce new equipment to screen Australian women as part of a AUD$120 million national upgrade funded out of the Federal Government's Health and Hospitals Fund.
19/01/2010
Scientists have developed a surgical technique that may allow cancer-suffering women to regrow their breasts after having a mastectomy.
13/11/2009
Continuing roll-out of the national immunisation program aimed at cervical cancer is thought to have caused a spike in the Government’s spending on preventative health measures in the financial year ending 2008.
10/11/2009
The prognosis for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer is still relatively poor despite improvements in survival rates.
24/02/2010
The European Commission has approved Herceptin (trastuzumab) in combination with chemotherapy for use in patients with HER2-positive metastatic stomach (gastric) cancer.
02/02/2010
IMPEDIMED will be gunning for the quick draw when it enters the annual Innovation Shoot Out in San Francisco on the 15 January 2009.
15/01/2009
THE AUSTRALIAN Government has released an expert committee’s evaluation of the BreastScreen Australia program and has said the valuable program will continue.
09/09/2009
THE Al Amal Hospital in Doha, Qatar, one of the leading cancer centres in the Middle East has acquired two radiotherapy devices from Varian Medical Systems.
12/03/2009
THE QLD Government has announced a private hospital providing more public beds sooner will be delivered first on the Sunshine Coast with work on the region's new public hospital now due to begin in 2013.
17/06/2009
Monash University biomedical scientists have identified a new way to treat castrate resistant cells in prostate cancer sufferers.
17/03/2010