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Bowel cancer is Australia’s second biggest cancer killer. However, we know that 90 per cent of bowel cancer cases could be successfully treated if caught early.
Thanks to your support, Cancer Council Victoria’s Grants-in-Aid program funds high quality research into the causes, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
This week two Cancer Council Victoria staff members were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday honours list: Mr. Todd Harper, Cancer Council Victoria CEO and Dr Michelle Scollo, Senior Advisor, Tobacco.
Our photo gallery acknowledges the work of our amazing supporters who are dedicated to a cancer free future.
A decade after launching as the only centre of its kind in the world, the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer continues to have global impact shaping laws that prevent cancer and protect people affected by it.
Cancer Council Victoria launches Food Fight, a new campaign to protect children from unhealthy food and drink advertising.
Cancer has cast a huge shadow over Karen’s family for generations.
Ridma runs for her “miracle baby”, Dion. The expectant mother was 12 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with aggressive lymphoma in 2015.
Soon cancer patients will receive radiotherapy in a more comfortable position as part of a new Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre project funded through Cancer Council Victoria’s Grants-in-Aid research grants program.
Kate was pregnant with her daughter Ava when she was diagnosed with stage two colorectal cancer.
With a surge of COVID-19 cases throughout the community and conditions changing rapidly, it’s a critical time for Cancer Council Victoria to provide support for people affected by cancer.
Genome sequencing – the technical ability to read the mutations in cancer cells – has revealed the broad range of mutations that drive paediatric cancers.
Individually, tobacco and alcohol cause thousands of cancer diagnoses in Australia each year. But what many aren’t aware of is that for some cancers, the combined effect of alcohol and tobacco is even greater than the sum of their individual effects.
Your monthly insight from Cancer Council Victoria CEO Todd Harper into our work and the people who make up our organisation.
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