Publications & Resources

An overview of brain cancer including types, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and finding support.

An overview of bowel cancer including types, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and finding support.

An overview of breast cancer including types, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and finding support.

An overview of gynaecological cancers including types, symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, treatment and finding support.

This resource has been superseded in-full or in-part by Managing menopausal symptoms after breast cancer - a guide for women. It is available to the public for research and reference purposes only. Cancer Australia assumes no legal liability or responsibility for errors or omissions contained within. This resource includes information on issues of sexual wellbeing and identifies risk factors and prevalence of common symptoms. The resource aims to guide health professionals through key practice points, and provides further referral options to specialist services and web links to additional information. Examples and tips on initiating the conversation are provided to support health professionals to identify and prioritise a woman’s key concerns and offer support to resolve these.

A systematic review of the evidence of how stigma and nihilism influences lung cancer patterns of care and patients’ psychosocial and quality of life (QOL) outcomes.

Follow-up has been defined as “a set of visits and examinations conducted in a systematic manner in the perspective of a pre-defined program”.While some common elements are included in most follow-up regimens, they have usually been developed by consensus or to reflect the approach of individual institutions, rather than on the basis of evidence.

This resource has been superseded in-full by the Evidence Report for Investigating symptoms of lung cancer: a guide for all health professionals (2020)

This study provides a national overview of breast cancer screening and survival in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women of Australia. Cancer Australia (formerly National Breast and Ovarian Cancer Centre*) undertook this study in response to the clear evidence of disadvantage among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples compared with other Australians, and the lack of high quality, national breast cancer data available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

In June 2012, Cancer Australia held a forum to discuss factors influencing the uptake of the evidence-based chemotherapy recommendations outlined in the Clinical practice guidelines for the management of women with epithelial ovarian cancer. This report is the outcome of the forum which includes insights into factors influencing the uptake of the chemotherapy recommendations and a set of approaches for enhancing uptake, including some prioritised suggestions.