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  • Cancer information
    • Cancer information

    • What is cancer?
      • What is cancer?

        Cancer is a disease of the cells, which are the body’s basic building blocks.

    • Types of cancer
      • Types of cancer

        Information about the diagnosis and treatment of different cancer types.

    • Treatments
      • Treatments

        Learn about cancer treatments and find your local treatment centre.

      • Questions for your doctor
      • Treatment centres
      • Treatment types
        • Chemotherapy
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        • Targeted therapy
        • Palliative care
      • Clinical trials
        • Search for a clinical trial
      • Making decisions about your care
    • Genetics and risk
      • Genetics and risk

        Information about genetics, family history and cancer.

      • Familial bowel cancer
      • Familial breast cancer
      • Familial ovarian cancer
      • Familial melanoma
      • Family history of cancer
      • Family cancer centres
      • Genetic testing
      • Genetic counselling
      • Useful links
    • Children, teens and young adults
      • Children, teens and young adults

        Information about cancer in children, teens and young adults.

      • Diagnosing children’s cancers
      • Reactions and emotions
      • Treating children’s cancers
      • Types of children’s cancers
      • During and after cancer
      • Cancer and school
      • Facts and figures
    • Advanced cancer
      • Advanced cancer

        Learn more about advanced cancer.

      • What is advanced cancer?
      • The emotional impact
      • Talking with family and friends
      • Making treatment decisions
      • Treatment
      • Managing symptoms
      • Planning ahead
      • Information for carers
      • Advance Care Planning Webinars
    • Aboriginal communities
      • Aboriginal communities

        Cancer information for aboriginal communities.

  • Managing daily life
    • Managing daily life

    • Common side effects
      • Common side effects

        Learn about common side effects and ways to manage them.

      • Changes in thinking and memory
      • Nerve pain and numbness
      • Fatigue and cancer
      • Fertility
      • Hair loss
      • Lymphoedema
      • Mouth health
      • Complementary therapies
      • Overcoming cancer pain
      • Taste and smell changes
    • Emotions
      • Emotions

        Learn about common reactions to cancer diagnoses and how to adjust.

    • Life after treatment
      • Life after treatment

        Information about the challenges you may face after treatment.

    • Nutrition
      • Nutrition

        Learn about eating well during and after cancer treatment.

    • Exercise
      • Exercise

        Learn about the importance of exercise including tips and examples.

    • Sexuality and intimacy
      • Sexuality and intimacy

        Dealing with the ways cancer and treatment may affect your sexuality.

    • Grief
      • Grief

        Understanding grief and ways to live with the loss of a loved one.

    • Holidays and travel
      • Holidays and travel

        Learn about insurance and tips for managing special occasions.

      • Special occasions
      • Travel Insurance and Cancer
    • Learning to relax
      • Learning to relax

        Tips for ways to cope with the emotional impact of cancer.

  • Get support
    • Get support

    • Cancer and COVID-19
      • Cancer and COVID-19

        Learn about cancer and COVID-19, and updates about our support services.

      • Latest news
      • COVID-19 and your health
      • Don't delay
      • Hospital visitor restrictions
      • Telehealth for patients and carers
      • Our support services and COVID-19
      • COVID-19 FAQs
      • Cancer treatment FAQs
      • Information in other languages
      • Smoking and COVID-19
      • COVID-19 for health professionals
      • Keep up to date
    • Contact our cancer nurses
      • Contact our cancer nurses

        Speak to a cancer nurse or email a question.

    • Facing end of life
      • Facing end of life

        Learn about the physical and emotional impacts.

    • Caring for someone with cancer
      • Caring for someone with cancer

        Learn more about supporting someone affected by cancer.

      • What carers do
    • Wig service
      • Wig service

        Our wig service is free, private and personalised.

      • Donating your hair
    • Connect and learn
      • Connect and learn

        Connect with others and participate in our free education programs.

      • Cancer Connect
      • Living with cancer
      • Support groups
        • Find a local support group
        • Telephone support groups
        • Internet support groups
      • Online community
      • Cancer Wellness Program
      • Contact a Cancer Nurse
    • Financial and legal
      • Financial and legal

        Information and support programs related to legal and financial matters.

      • Cancer and your finances
      • Financial Counselling Program
      • Pro Bono Services
    • Work
      • Work

        How to manage a work life and cancer.

    • Holiday break program
      • Holiday break program

        Free short breaks for those affected by cancer and their families.

    • Cancer services guide
      • Cancer services guide

        A guide to support services available to Victorians affected by cancer.

    • Aboriginal communities
      • Aboriginal communities

        Cancer information and support services for Victorian Aboriginal communities.

    • LGBTIQ+ communities
      • LGBTIQ+ communities

        Cancer information and support services for LGBTIQ+ communities.

  • Prevention
    • Prevention

    • Get checked
      • Get checked

        Early detection offers one of the best chances of cure.

      • Find bowel cancer early
        • Faecal occult blood tests (FOBT)
      • Breast health
        • Breast awareness and screening
        • Normal breast changes
        • Common breast problems
        • Investigating breast changes
        • Questions about your breasts
        • Atypical ductal hyperplasia
        • Ductal carcinoma in situ
        • Lobular carcinoma in situ
      • Prevent cervical cancer
        • Find a cervical screening test provider
      • Prostate health
        • Prostate problems
        • Testing for prostate cancer
      • Hepatitis B & liver cancer
    • Limit alcohol
      • Limit alcohol

        Cut down on alcohol to reduce your risk of cancer.

      • Alcohol causes at least 7 types of cancer
      • How alcohol causes cancer
      • Safe level of alcohol
      • Defining a standard drink
      • Standard drink tool
      • Tips to reduce your drinking
      • Drinking alcohol when you have cancer
      • For health professionals
      • Our policy work on alcohol
    • Be a healthy weight
      • Be a healthy weight

        Convincing evidence links obesity to various cancers.

    • Eat a healthy diet
      • Eat a healthy diet

        We recommend a healthy body weight, regular exercise and a healthy diet.

    • Be SunSmart
      • Be SunSmart

        It's preventable but nearly 2,000 Australians die of skin cancer each year.

    • Quit smoking
      • Quit smoking

        Each year 15,000 Australians are diagnosed with smoking-related cancer.

    • Be physically active
      • Be physically active

        Evidence links physical activity to reduced breast and colon cancer risk.

    • Workplaces
      • Workplaces

        Tips to cut your cancer risk in the workplace.
    • Aboriginal communities
      • Aboriginal communities

        We're working to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

    • LGBTIQ+ communities
      • LGBTIQ+ communities

        Cancer information and support services for LGBTIQ+ communities.

  • Research
    • Research

    • Research news
      • Research news

        Get the latest cancer research news.
    • Research grants
      • Research grants

        Scientific work funded in universities, hospitals and research institutes.

      • Apply for funding
      • Colebatch Clinical Research Fellowship
      • Summer Vacation Studentships
      • Research Fellowships
      • Sir Edward Dunlop Research Fellowship
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      • Search research projects
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      • How much do we spend on external research?
    • Search our research
      • Search our research

        Search the vast number of projects we've been involved in over the years.

    • Meet our researchers
      • Meet our researchers

        Team of researchers who have expanded our understanding of cancer.

    • Our Forgotten Cancers Program
      • Our Forgotten Cancers Program

        Improving survival for less common and low survival cancers.

    • Research ethics and guidelines
      • Research ethics and guidelines

        Learn about our research ethics and research practice guidelines

    • Victorian Cancer Registry
      • Victorian Cancer Registry

        We register details of all cancer diagnoses to keep statistics.

      • About us
      • Accessing and requesting data
      • Data access costs
      • Legal and governance framework
      • Data linkage services
      • Recruitment and research studies
        • E-Path
        • Abrevio project
      • Publications
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      • Contact us
    • Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer
      • Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer

        Learn more about the centre and its work.

      • Meet the team
      • Major research projects
        • Tobacco
        • Skin cancer prevention
        • Diet and obesity
        • Alcohol
        • Cancer screening
        • Cancer care and other research
      • Search our research
    • Cancer Epidemiology Division
      • Cancer Epidemiology Division

        Learn more about the centre and its work.

      • About CED
      • Publications
        • CED Publications 2018
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        • Peer-reviewed epidemiology journal articles 2011
        • Peer-reviewed epidemiology journal articles 2010
        • Peer-reviewed epidemiology journal articles 2009
        • Peer-reviewed epidemiology journal articles 2008
        • Peer-reviewed epidemiology journal articles 2007
        • CEC Publications 2006
        • Peer-reviewed epidemiology journal articles 2005
        • Epidemiology publications 2004
        • CEC Publications 2003
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        • CEC Publications 2000
        • CEC Publications 1995-1999
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        • CED PhD supervision
        • CED Publications 2019
        • CED Publications 2020
        • CED reports
      • Programs and studies
      • Genetic epidemiology
      • Prostate cancer epidemiology
      • Collaborate with CED
      • Dietary questionnaires
      • Health 2020
      • ABC Study
      • Contact the Cancer Epidemiology Division
    • VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control
      • VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control

        Learn more about the centre and its work.

      • Nigel Gray Fellowship work
      • VCTC publications pre 2004
      • VCTC publications post 2004
      • Tobacco control researchers
      • Nigel Gray Award
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        Support our work including research, cancer support and prevention.

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        • Make a one-off donation
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      • Leave a gift in your Will
        • Planning your Will
        • Wording your Will
        • Preparing a Will
        • Where your money will go
        • Let us know you've left a bequest
      • Honour your loved one
      • Give in celebration
    • Leave a gift in your Will
      • Leave a gift in your Will

        A gift of hope for generations to come.
    • Fundraise
      • Fundraise

        Find a fundraising event to suit you.

      • Girls' Night In
      • Shave or chop your hair
      • Fundraise your way
      • Get active
      • The Longest Day
      • Fundraising on Facebook
      • Walking Stars
      • Paddle Across The Bay
      • Melbourne Marathon
      • Relay For Life
        • Relay For Life volunteer application form
      • The March Charge
      • Australia's Biggest Morning Tea
      • Dry July
      • Run Melbourne
      • Daffodil Day Appeal
        • Daffodil Day School Registration
    • Volunteer with us
      • Volunteer with us

        Join the fight against cancer and volunteer with us.

      • Ways of volunteering
      • Regional fundraising groups
      • Corporate volunteering
      • How do I become a volunteer?
      • Volunteer opportunities
      • Volunteering FAQs
    • Community engagement
      • Community engagement

        Share your story to help others, give back and be heard.

      • Register your interest
      • Your stories
    • Give a major gift
      • Give a major gift

        Learn more about philanthropy at Cancer Council Victoria.

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        • Cancer research
        • Early detection
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      • Partner with us
    • Become a corporate supporter
      • Become a corporate supporter

        There are many ways corporates can support our work.
    • Fund cancer research
      • Fund cancer research

        Fund a specific type of cancer research and earn a research award.

    • Honour your loved one
      • Honour your loved one

        Create a lasting space to remember your loved one or give in memory.

    • Give in celebration
      • Give in celebration

        Make a lasting contribution when you celebrate your next special occasion.

    • Donate a holiday
      • Donate a holiday

        Give a cancer patient some time away in your holiday home.
    • Shop online
      • Shop online

        Cancer Council’s online store  offers ultimate sun protection solutions.

  • Health professionals
    • Health professionals

    • Cancer and COVID-19
      • Cancer and COVID-19

        Learn about cancer and COVID-19, and support services for your patients.

      • Industry news and resources
      • Referrals to our cancer nurses
      • Don’t Delay
      • Our support services and COVID-19
      • Information in other languages
      • Cancer and COVID-19 FAQs
      • Cancer treatment FAQs
      • Essential services and supplies
      • Keep up to date
    • News
      • News

        Read our latest news for health professionals.

    • Cancer support referral
      • Cancer support referral

        Request a call back from a cancer nurse for one of your patients or carers.
    • Order free publications
      • Order free publications

        Order a limited number of our free booklets and brochures.

    • Education and training
      • Education and training

        Education programs for people who work in a healthcare setting.

      • Cancer education programs
        • Cancer Education Program - Members
      • Effective cancer communication
        • ECC members only
      • eLearning modules
      • Advanced Communication Skills Retreat 2021
      • Clinical consultation skills webinar
      • Advance care planning webinars
    • Cervical screening providers
      • Cervical screening providers

        Information for Nurse Cervical Screening providers.

      • Cervical screening directory
      • Cervical screening certification
      • Preceptors
      • Cervical screening resources
      • Nurse Ambassador Program
      • Nurse scholarships
    • Optimal Care Pathways
      • Optimal Care Pathways

        Review of the Pathways (formerly Patient Management Frameworks).

    • Clinical Network
      • Clinical Network

        Network of specialist health care professionals.

      • Clinical Network overview
      • What we do
      • Resources
        • Optimal Care Pathways
        • Statements and submissions
        • Clinical practice guides
        • Cancer statistics
        • Education & training
        • Resources for cancer patients
      • Latest news
      • Join the Clinical Network
      • Victorian Cancer Plan
    • Community health
      • Community health

        Resources and support for Community Health Professionals.

      • Cancer Screening Resources Hub
      • Education and training
      • Hepatitis and liver cancer
      • Multicultural Communities Grants
    • Clinical practice guides
      • Clinical practice guides

        Medical guides for specific cancers.

    • Financial and legal referrals
      • Financial and legal referrals

        Referral information for legal and financial assistance programs.

      • Financial Counselling Program
      • Pro Bono Services
    • Resources for dietitians
      • Resources for dietitians

        To support nutritional management of oncology patients.

    • General practice
      • General practice

        Resources and support for general practice.

      • Clinical practice guidelines
      • Education and online learning
      • Optimal care pathways
      • Patient resources
      • Useful links and resources
  • About us
    • About us

    • Contact us
      • Contact us

        Addresses, phone numbers, parking and public transport information.

    • What we do
      • What we do

        Our strategic plan, outlining our mission, values, goals and priorities.

    • Latest news and stories
      • Latest news and stories

        News from Cancer Council Victoria and stories of those affected by cancer.

    • Where the money goes
      • Where the money goes

        See what we spent our money on in 2019.

    • Work with us
      • Work with us

        Interested in a career with Cancer Council Victoria? Find out more.

      • Job vacancies
      • Volunteer with us
    • Media
      • Media

        Latest media releases and contacts for media liaison.

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      • 2020 media releases
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      • Governance

        Find out about our governance and our board.

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      • Publications and videos

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    • Annual reviews
      • Annual reviews

        View our annual reviews which demonstrate our achievements each year.

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    • Our history
      • Our history

        Snapshots of people and events from our long history.

    • Culturally diverse communities
      • Culturally diverse communities

        We work to reduce the impact of cancer in diverse communities.

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      • Melbourne retail store

        Visit us at our St Kilda Road retail store.

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