…home with his Mum providing palliative care. He passed away at 8 years and 10 months. The experience prompted Jenny to start up the Central Queensland branch of Childhood Cancer Support in 1996, where she was the founding president. Making…

A treatment that uses radio waves to heat and destroy cancer cells….

A breakdown of bone tissue due to radiation therapy treatment.

…their condition and treatment and measuring the degree to which they are involved with making decisions about their care. People with a cancer diagnosis living in regional and remote Australia often have poorer access to quality health care. Therefore, it…

The Optimal Cancer Care Pathways outline the best cancer care for specific tumour types. The pathways are designed to promote a full understanding of the patient journey in order to foster quality cancer care from the point of diagnosis. Each…

A person who has finished their active cancer treatment and is free from any signs of cancer.

The individual, usually once daily, dose of radiation that makes up part of a course of radiation therapy treatment.

This information is aimed to support you to understand how specific cancers are diagnosed and treated, and how to find additional support. This is important as no two cancers are the same. Testing, treatment and side effects can be different…

A test that analyses the activity of a group of genes that affect how a cancer is likely to behave and respond to treatment….

The time between one chemotherapy treatment session and the next.