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…Home to Treatment service Our Home to Treatment service aims to reduce the financial and emotional burden of cancer by providing transport to service users who are facing hardship in accessing their treatment. These hardships may include: Financial hardship Limited…

Disease mapping: Geographic differences in population rates of interventional treatment for prostate cancer in Australia

Summary For men with prostate cancer, the way it is treated depends on where they live in Australia. What is known? People diagnosed with prostate cancer decide which treatment (or treatments) to undertake, with their doctors’ advice and guidance. These…

News: Hodgkin’s lymphoma breakthrough leads to better treatment

…and tailored therapy for those diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and potentially other cancers. Other investigators are using the same approach to determine individualised breast and prostate cancer treatment. Cancer Council Queensland spokesperson Katie Clift said identifying appropriate treatment for patients…

hyperbaric treatment

Involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurised room or tube.

News: Hodgkin’s lymphoma breakthrough leads to better treatment

…and tailored therapy for those diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and potentially other cancers. Other investigators are using the same approach to determine individualised breast and prostate cancer treatment. Cancer Council Queensland spokesperson Katie Clift said identifying appropriate treatment for patients…

News: Researchers Find New Breast Cancer Treatment Target

…to more confidently predict outcomes in some breast cancer patients, and subsequently improve treatment regimes. “It also opens the way to develop a new and novel drug for the treatment of breast cancer.” Professor Muscat and his team are now…

News: Where women live influences decisions about breast cancer treatment

…QUT PhD researcher Jeff Ching-Fu Hsieh said the research found women living closer to a radiation treatment facility were more likely to agree to be scheduled to use adjuvant therapy to treat breast cancer. Adjuvant therapy is additional treatment commonly…

radioisotope treatment

The use of radioactive liquid that is taken by mouth as a capsule or given by injection….

salvage treatment

Different treatments used when prostate cancer has returned….