Cancer Council has welcomed the LNP’s election pledge to roll out pre-booked breast screening statewide, with Queensland women now also able to schedule their appointments online. The Australian-first initiative was announced by Health Minister and Member for Southern Downs Lawrence Springborg today, following a trial that saw a threefold increase in the number of women…

Women with drug-resistant forms of breast cancer may have new hope in their fight against the disease, thanks to a new drug being developed in Queensland. Pre-clinical trials of the experimental drug, MitoTAM, will begin in a matter of months at Griffith University, with funding from Cancer Council Queensland. Cancer Council Queensland spokesperson Katie Clift…

A simple text message will allow Queensland women to determine their risk of cancer from today, as Cancer Council launches the first Atlas of Women’s Cancer in Queensland on Pink Ribbon Day. Cancer Council Queensland’s Cancer Research Centre launched the Atlas at codepink.org.au to highlight geographic disparities in the diagnosis and mortality of breast, cervical,…

Cancer Council has backed an Australian-first trial announced by BreastScreen Queensland today, involving more than 2000 women who have been pre-booked for free mammographic screening. Letters have been sent to a selection of Queensland women, notifying them of their pre-booked appointment time at a mobile van or BreastScreen Service Centre, using the latest digital mammography…

Celebrity Chef Dominique Rizzo has added a dash of pink this October to help Cancer Council take on women’s cancers as a national ambassador for pink month! Dom’s announcement as national ambassador for Pink Ribbon Day and Pink Ribbon fundraising coincides with the opening of her latest project in Banyo, Putia Pure Food Kitchen. Dom…

Queensland: Get the girls together now, to keep the girls together later! It’s October, the month Cancer Council Queensland is calling on all women to unite in pink by hosting a Girls’ Night In fundraiser to beat women’s cancers – while putting the spotlight on their own health. Thanks to events like Cancer Council Queensland’s…

Whether it’s a Samsung, iPhone 4, 5 or 6, Nokia, Google or HTC, Cancer Council is calling on all smartphone users to unite in pink in support of Pink Ribbon Day, Monday October 27! Queenslanders are invited to take on women’s cancers through a new Pink Ribbon mobile site at pinkribbonday.mobi. The mobile site allows…

Cancer Council is inviting bloggers across the country to unite in pink this October and help the one in six Queensland women who will be diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer in their lifetime. Around 3900 Queensland women will be diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer this year, and about 800 will die from these…

More Queenslanders are participating in breast cancer screening than the national average, and mortality rates are dropping according to a new report released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare today. The BreastScreen Australia monitoring report 2011-2012 showed Queensland had the fourth-highest uptake rate of breast screening in the country, with 57 per cent…

Cancer Council Queensland is calling on all Queenslanders to wear a dash of pink this October in support of national Pink Ribbon Day. This year in Queensland, around 3900 women will be diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer, and around 800 will die from these women’s cancers. Pink Ribbon Day (Monday, October 27) provides an…