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Michael.Tarquinio@cancervic.org.au 0400 029 450
Cancer Prevention including tobacco, lung cancer, Quit program, Food for Health Alliance, LiveLighter, obesity, alcohol, skin cancer prevention, SunSmart
Prue.Gildea@cancervic.org.au 0400 394 274
Cancer Screening and Early Detection (including bowel and cervical cancer, hepatitis B and HPV immunisation)
Ashleigh.Say@cancervic.org.au (03) 9514 6454
Cancer Council Victoria acknowledges the life of Dame Olivia Newton-John and her dedication to cancer awareness, research and advocacy.
More than 10,000 people and community and health organisations have signed up to support Cancer Council Victoria’s Food Fight, calling to protect children from unhealthy food and drink advertising where they commute, learn, and play.
Cancer Council Victoria has welcomed a focus on cancer in the state budget.
Victorian children are being hit by at least 25 unhealthy food and drink ads every day, as Cancer Council Victoria launches Food Fight, a new campaign to protect children from unhealthy food and drink advertising by the processed food industry on public transport and their routes to school.
Victorian teenagers are being encouraged to catch-up on their scheduled human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccinations, with thousands missing out on the vaccine in the last two years due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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.
Researchers are now a step closer in developing automated life-saving breast cancer risk-prediction tests. These tests could revolutionise how mammography is used to detect the disease earlier, and in more women.
A decade after launching as the only centre of its kind in the world, the McCabe Centre for Law & Cancer has released its 10-year impact report outlining its contribution to laws that prevent cancer and protect people affected by it.
Cancer diagnoses in Victoria declined by 7 per cent – or about 2,420 fewer individual diagnoses in 2020 – likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
New campaign encourages women and people with a cervix to take their health into their own hands
Access to Victorian cancer clinical trials will be improved thanks to $1.5 million in grants awarded by Cancer Council Victoria today, including a project to establish the first regional allied health cancer clinical trials unit at Barwon Health.
Identical twin sisters have teamed their Doctors.com.au platform with Cancer Council Australia on a mission to prevent unnecessary illness and death by reminding people of the need for regular health check-ups and screenings.
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