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Cancer can be expensive. Join our focus group and share your experience to help others and influence change.
Pensioner, Lynne travels long distances for thyroid cancer treatment and says accommodation support would help.
Jill watched her son Jake die of pancreatic cancer at only 35. When Jill was later diagnosed with melanoma, his awful experience meant Jill was ready to refuse treatment.
Cancer patient, Jenni's seen first hand how out-of-pocket costs vary according to the doctor, hospital, treatment, private health fund, policy and the policy excess.
People with cancer have higher rates of mental illness: that’s why Cancer Council Victoria made a submission to the Royal Commission into Mental Health
If the financial cost of cancer has adversely affected you, please join our advocacy work to help others.
Research linking some breast implants to a rare cancer, and the subsequent world-wide recall, has caused confusion at an already difficult time for people with breast cancer.
A global clinical trial led in Europe and Australia by Colebatch Fellowship recipient, Prof Kelly-Anne Phillips, has identified a treatment that helps prevent early onset of menopause in young women treated with chemotherapy for breast cancer.
Cancer in the family? Thinking about genetic tests? Having them may not affect your life insurance cover any more.
Thank you very much to everyone who participated in the survey and workshops we held as part of our submission to the Victorian Cancer Plan. Find out what’s happening next.
If you’re a cancer patient or carer, leading research institutes Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Walter & Eliza Hall Institute and Monash University need your help to improve cancer outcomes.
There was an incredible feeling of hope across Australia on Daffodil Day, as generous volunteers across the country exchanged daffodils for life-saving donations – all funding vital cancer research. Check out the photo gallery.
For clinical nurse specialist Robyn, it was the passing of her mother from bowel cancer when Robyn was just 11 that sparked a passion to help people diagnosed with cancer.
Getting diagnosed with Stage 3 ovarian cancer at 32 not only shocked Jayne, but also her doctors.
The support services offered while Jodie was going through her bowel cancer diagnosis ended up being beneficial to her whole family.
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