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Relay For Life 2022 – Terms and Conditions – Build Your Team

…For Life through https://www.relayforlife.org.au/ before Sunday, 15 May 2022, at 11:59pm AEST. Grow team numbers for their Relay For Life team, through participants registering through https://www.relayforlife.org.au/ with the promotional code BUILD50. Entering this competition is deemed acceptance of these Terms…

News: Help eliminate cervical cancer and save a friend’s life

  Something truly amazing has happened. Tell your friends about it. It could save their lives. Australia is set to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer. This amazing achievement follows the success of the Human…

Blog: Jenaya’s story: where there’s life, there’s joy

…didn’t have a bath for his first year of life because he couldn’t get the central line, or the dressing, wet, so we sponge bathed him on the kitchen bench,” Jenaya says, remembering that time in her life. Not only…

News: Life after cancer can be brighter

…has interfered with the achievements of their life goals, and 9.7 per cent feel their life will never be good again. “We urgently call on those distressed by a cancer diagnosis to reach out for help and support to cope.”…

Relay for Life 2023 Terms and Conditions Townsville Banking Challenge

…at the bottom of any email from Relayforlife@cancerqld.org.au at least 3 days before the end of the competition on Wednesday, 19 July 2023, at 11:59pm AEST. Register to fundraise for Cancer Council Queensland Townsville Relay For Life 2023 through https://www.relayforlife.org.au/

News: Ipswich Relay For Life postponed due to weather

…support, and we look forward to announcing a new date for Ipswich Relay For Life in the coming days.” Ipswich Relay For Life participants can phone Cancer Council’s Fundraising Hotline 1300 65 65 85 for more information. Cancer Council Queensland…

News: Stop sweating the small stuff

…and don’t forget your daily dose of two serves of fruit and five serves of fresh veggies a day. Good nutrition contributes significantly to maintaining a healthy weight, better quality of life, good physical and mental health throughout life, resistance…

Learning to relax

The diagnosis and treatment of cancer is demanding not only on those diagnosed, but also for their family and friends. Routines are interrupted, and people often say they feel like they are on a roller coaster ride of appointments, tests…

Research snapshot – Hospital characteristics and outcomes following pancreaticoduodenectomy Narendra 2020

What is known? In population-level studies from the USA and Europe, pancreatic resection in high-volume centres has been reported to be associated with significant improvements in surgical outcomes including post-operative mortality, quality of surgical resection and survival when compared with…

Research snapshots – Hospital characteristics and outcomes after oesophagogastric cancer surgery Narendra 2020

What is known? Curative treatment for gastric and oesophageal cancers requires complex surgery. Queensland has significantly lower resection volumes compared with international series. What is new? Surgery performed in high volume, high service centres resulted in better delivery of high-quality