Cervical Screening Program: your questions answered
April 17, 2018
By Cancer Council Queensland CEO Chris McMillan If you have a cervix – this is... View More
April 17, 2018
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December 1, 2017
Community cervix announcement: new screening program launches
December 1, 2017
Cancer Council Queensland has welcomed a new cervical screening program which wi... View More
April 6, 2017
Three strikes for Brisbane: young men and women miss HPV shots
April 6, 2017
Only 79 per cent of 15-year-old girls in Brisbane’s inner city have been fully... View More
HPV Vaccine has halved cervical cancer rates
September marked ten years since the world’s first cancer vaccine, developed right here in Queensland, was administered in Australia. Developed by a research team led by Professor Ian Frazer and his colleague, the late Dr Jian Zhou, the human papillomaviruses (HPV) vaccine took about 16 years to create using genetic engineering. The HPV vaccine works…
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