With youthful enthusiasm, 24-year-old Stephanie Kay throws herself into all opportunities to volunteer for the Cancer Council Queensland. Having fought-off the bowel cancer she was diagnosed with at 21, Steph’s eyes are on a cancer-free future.

New food labels depicting the amount of exercise needed to work off food and drink could improve public health, experts say. An article in today’s British Medical Journal suggests that more than half of consumers would positively change their behaviour if ‘activity calories’ were printed on food packaging. According to the article’s authors, exercise labelling…

Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is coming up in May and we would love it if you could Gather, Share, Give and help achieve our vision for a cancer free Queensland.

For the first time ever, international childhood cancer experts have developed registry guidelines for collecting data on the stage of cancer at diagnosis among children. Australian researchers played a leading role in development of the guidelines, which will help to improve outcomes for children affected by the disease. The guidelines, published this week in The…

Listen back to our April 2 show! Be part of an Ipswich Race Day raising funds for CCQ, learn to savour time to yourself, grab a healthy chicken parma recipe & find out why setting goals for 90 days is better than setting annual goals. Listen to the latest Live Well, Be Well radio podcast…

Many more people worldwide are now obese than underweight, a landmark study has found, prompting Cancer Council to call for urgent action to curb the crisis. The Lancet study revealed global obesity has increased by 167 per cent since 1975, compared to a 35 per cent drop in the number of underweight people. Cancer Council…

A grant from CCQ has led to a research breakthrough that could help doctors to beat the most deadly and difficult to treat breast cancers.

Cancer Council has issued an urgent warning for Queenslanders to stay vigilant about sun safety, with the Sunshine State still taking out the title as skin cancer capital of the world. A global study, published this week, found Australia no longer has the highest per capita rates of invasive melanoma in the world – in…

Cancer Council Queensland has joined calls from public health experts to get kids off the couch and moving for their health these school holidays. Less than half of Queensland children aged five to 17 years get enough exercise, and 34 per cent average two or more hours of screen time daily, exceeding the recommended guideline.…

Cancer Council Queensland is calling on Brisbane to come together at New Farm Park next month to help them pull off Australia’s Biggest BYO Morning Tea.   The first-time event, held on April 16, invites friends, families and workplaces to come together to launch Cancer Council’s Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea campaign for 2016.   Cancer…