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hyperbaric treatment

Involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurised room or tube.

Travelling for Treatment

The Travelling for Treatment project aims to understand more about the experiences of regional Queenslanders who must travel to receive cancer treatment. Participants include guests staying at the Cancer Council Queensland (CCQ) accommodation lodges and their carers. The accommodation lodges…

News: Programs for your patients – Treatment decisions

Increasing numbers of your patients will be diagnosed with cancer and will survive this disease to live with the long-term consequences. The need for, and benefits of, psycho-social peer support is well described in the literature. When you think about…

tamoxifen

An anti-oestrogen hormone treatment….

News: Robotic surgery giving hope to prostate cancer patients

…said. “These findings highlight the need for improved distress screening and psychological care long after treatment ends. “Issues such as sexual dysfunction, urinary and bowel changes, and even fear of recurrence can all lead to elevated psychological distress. “For optimal…

neo-adjuvant therapy

Giving treatment before the primary treatment to try and make the primary treatment more successful….

News: Cancer Council Queensland expands patient transport service in Brisbane

Cancer Council Queensland has partnered with Icon Cancer Centre to expand its home-to-treatment transport service to include the Moreton Bay region. The Transport to Treatment service, which currently operates in inner-city Brisbane, will now transport eligible cancer patients from their…

late effects

Side effects of cancer treatment that occur several months or years after treatment.