Cancer
Patients dying waiting for treatment - cancer specialist
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
New cancer drugs get Pharmac boost
Cancer specialists and patients have welcomed news that three potentially life-saving skin cancer medicines are to be funded.
When Caroline Crampton Realised She Was a Hypochondriac
Caroline Crampton resisted the idea that she was a hypochondriac, but now she's written an entire book on the history of the condition. Audio
Plans to open new blood cancer treatment business
A biotech company has plans to begin offering a new type of treatment for some blood cancers, in Christchuch.
The pancreatic cancer patient on a mission to save lives
Nyree Smith's cancer is terminal, but she's still on a mission - to get Kiwis to their doctors before it's too late.
Surviving cancer depends on wrangling the health system - study
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.
Daffodil memory meadows to flush Waikato parks with yellow
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.
AI photos show people with cancer their lost future
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.
AI: Scientists excited by tool that grades severity of rare cancer
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.
New Zealand developed cancer treatment: one step closer to market
A breakthrough cancer treatment developed in here New Zealand which uses a patient's own immune system to find and destroys the disease is a step closer to market. Kathryn talks to Dr Rob Weinkove the… Audio
22 Simon Wilson | The Cancer Diaries
A shock diagnosis forced Simon Wilson to come to terms with his own mortality. Rather than let it derail his work, the veteran journalist made the bold call to bring readers along on each step of his… Audio
