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.
The accounts of medical diagnostic company Pacific Edge remain in the red but chairman Chris Swann said it was on the verge of a commercial breakthrough.
Research in Britain which has found no link between pregnant women's exposure to cellphone tower radio-frequency and early childhood cancer should end public debate on the issue, a New Zealand medical expert says.
Cell phone users worried about getting brain cancer aren't off the hook yet.
Tennis great Martina Navratilova has been diagnosed with a noninvasive form of breast cancer and her prognosis is considered excellent.
The annual Bridge to Bar run, in which entrants run 5km from the Tutoko Bridge to the Milford Pub on St Patrick's Day, raised more than $2500 for the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation.
Some of the proceeds from the inaugural Central Otago Relay for Life have been used to employ a health promotion co-ordinator, who started in the role last week.
The Southland District Health Board will today be asked to support the proposed pilot scheme which would give some public-hospital cancer patients the option of paying for extra drugs.
Health Minister Tony Ryall has put district health boards (DHBs) on notice over waiting times for cancer treatment, despite his ministry being reasonably happy with its performance figures.
A triplet who captured the hearts of her schoolmates and her community has died of cancer.
It has been a decade since cancer took the life of Steve Chesterfield's closest friend.
The best way to get better colonoscopy services in New Zealand would be to introduce a bowel cancer screening programme as soon as possible, an Otago-trained cancer surgeon now working in Australia says.
