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Collaborative Cancer Research passes $100m milestone
Released: 17/12/2015News Type: Media ReleasesJoint Media Release - Minister for Health Sussan Ley and Cancer Australia read more
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Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and risk of breast cancer
Released: 27/11/2015News Type: AnnouncementCancer Council NSW has today released a study into Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) which found that women currently using HRT are, ‘twice as likely to develop breast cancer compared to women who have never used the medication’. This comparative read more
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Lung Cancer Awareness Month: Taking knowledge to Indigenous communities
Released: 23/11/2015News Type: Media ReleasesCancer Australia is today launching Our Lungs, Our Mob, using interactive touchscreen technology to increase knowledge and awareness of lung cancer focussing on rural and remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. read more
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Cancer Australia releases its 2014-15 Annual Report
Released: 28/10/2015News Type: AnnouncementCancer Australia is pleased to release the Cancer Australia Annual Report 2014-15. read more
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First of its kind report provides picture of breast cancer in young Australian women
Released: 26/10/2015News Type: Media ReleasesJoint release: Cancer Australia and the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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Let’s Yarn About Breast Cancer: Find it Early and Survive!
Released: 15/10/2015News Type: Media ReleasesCompared with non-Indigenous women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 14% less likely to survive 5 years after a diagnosis of breast cancer, the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Indigenous women. read more
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Cancer prevention and lifestyle choices
Released: 07/10/2015News Type: AnnouncementIt is estimated that at least one third of all cancer cases are preventable, and that potentially more than half of all cancers could be avoided through a combination of healthy lifestyle and regular screening. read more
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2016 Supporting people with cancer grant initiative - call for applications now open
Released: 23/09/2015News Type: AnnouncementInvitation to Apply for the 2016 Supporting people with cancer grant initiative read more
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Australian-first national approach to Indigenous cancer care
Released: 31/08/2015News Type: Media ReleasesAn Australian-first national approach to addressing the Indigenous cancer gap establishes seven new national priorities to reduce the increasing cancer mortality rates in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. read more
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Cancer Australia welcomes the announcement of its new Advisory Council Members
Released: 04/09/2015News Type: AnnouncementThe Hon Sussan Ley MP, Minister for Health, has today announced the appointment of nine new members to the Cancer Australia Advisory Council for a period of three years. read more
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