Cancer

As cervical screening picks up pace toward an 80 percent coverage target, services to further examine cases alerted in the screening tests are not able to keep up, clinical experts say. Audio

Blood cancer patients waiting for stem cell treatments are being given extra chemotherapy and some are dying when that no longer works, a specialist says. Audio

Cancer specialists and patients have welcomed news that three potentially life-saving skin cancer medicines are to be funded.

A biotech company has plans to begin offering a new type of treatment for some blood cancers, in Christchuch.

Nyree Smith's cancer is terminal, but she's still on a mission - to get Kiwis to their doctors before it's too late.

The last thing we need when faced with the possibility of cancer is to have to push for diagnosis and care. Yet it's a common experience.

Two Waikato parks are being turned into memory meadows that will be awash with daffodils this spring, in a pilot programme by the Cancer Society.

People with incurable cancer have been given a glimpse of a future they know they may not see in a Gallery of Hope, created using photography and artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is nearly twice as good at grading the aggressiveness of a rare form of cancer from scans as the current method, a study suggests.