Cancer

Friends of Angus Beaton and the Arrowtown community have helped raise more than $7000 to aid the preschool pupil's journey in Christchurch.

Cancer survival rates have improved markedly - although the picture is not so rosy if you are Maori or poor, a University of Otago report says.

When Queenstown mother of two Nicki Smith found an area of swelling in her breast last year her life changed.

"Quite a damning" report into New Zealand's cervical screening programme reveals significant issues to be addressed before the service can be considered world class, University of Otago Associate Prof Brian Cox says.

University of Otago research into cancer-enabling genes could be used to help develop therapies to fight certain cancers, including kidney and ovarian cancer.

When Wanaka toddler Ciara Hovey (2) starts her next fight against a rare soft-tissue cancer, rhabdomyosarcoma, in Christchurch today, her bald teachers at Oanaka Educare Centre will have every reason to be thinking about her.

Dunedin teenager Karli Adams (14) knows she cannot change the fact her father Garth died when he was 31, but that does not stop her wondering what her life might have been like if he was still alive.

Sandra Turner has cancer. She also has a lust for life, Shane Gilchrist discovers.

The Dunedin medical oncologist who was disappointed his district health board did not get approval for a controversial pilot scheme involving unfunded chemotherapy drugs has signed up to Mercy Hospital, which plans to offer them early next year.

A bowel cancer screening programme covering 130,000 people will be trialled in the Waitemata District Health Board (DHB) catchment, Health Minister Tony Ryall announced today.