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News: Boost your nutrition to ward off winter cold and flus

…protect your body from billions of bacteria, viruses, and other germs. Living with cancer increases your risk for complications from influenza, so people currently going through treatment, or who have a personal history of cancer, and people who live with…

Cancer Clinical Trials Support Scheme

…improving cancer treatments and supporting cancer patients. The Cancer Clinical Trials Support Scheme plays an essential role in increasing the awareness, positive perception and funding of cancer clinical trials in Queensland. Contact For further information about the Cancer Clinical Trials…

News: Meet Jenny, Cancer Connect Volunteer

…the switch to Cancer Council Queensland in 2006 – after her younger sister was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003. Jenny’s cancer journey continued in 2006, when she was diagnosed with lung cancer. Back then, lung cancer had a stigma…

News: World Cancer Day: Volunteers Can

World Cancer Day aims to raise awareness by uniting and mobilising people the world over in the fight against cancer. The 2016 theme is “We can. I can.” – highlighting that we all have a role to play in cancer

News: New research highlights importance of screening for breast cancer patients

…contact: Cancer Council Queensland Coordinator, PR and Social Media, Erin Saroglia – ErinSaroglia@cancerqld.org.au | 0498 018 419 or 3634 5211 Cancer Council Queensland Senior Coordinator, PR and Social Media, Grace Lingard – GraceLingard@cancerqld.org.au | 0447 193 468 or 3634 5112…

Latest cancer statistics

…An online data dissemination tool that provides the latest available statistics on cancer incidence, mortality, survival and prevalence for the most common cancers in Queensland. Access QCSOL Australian Childhood Cancer Statistics Online Australian Childhood Cancer Statistics Online provides recent incidence,…

non-epithelial ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancer that does not start in the lining of the ovary. Types include germ cell ovarian cancer and sex-cord stromal cancer….

Skin Cancer

…and basal cell skin cancers are sometimes called nonmelanoma skin cancers. Nonmelanoma skin cancer usually responds to treatment and rarely spreads to other parts of the body. Melanoma is more aggressive than most other types of skin cancer. If it…

News: Cancer Council Queensland welcomes sugary drinks crackdown

…say by completing the survey at www.cancerqld.org.au/everydayhealthsurvey. For more about Cancer Council Queensland visit cancerqld.org.au or phone 13 11 20. ENDS For more information, contact: Laura McKoy, Manager, Public Relations, Cancer Council Queensland P. (07) 3634 5345 or 0409 001…