Cancer

Dunedin man Michael Horgan received a positive result after requesting to be screened for bowel cancer, but was turned away from Southern DHB because he didn't have serious symptoms. Video, Audio

Cancer patients have a better chance of survival in Australia than they do in New Zealand, a new study has found. Cancer patient Jess Spence says that's just not good enough. Video, Audio

The Cancer Society says 2,500 more New Zealanders would have survived cancer if they'd lived in Australia. The claim is based on cancer survival statistics in a new international report published in… Audio

Growing wait times have contributed to delays in rolling out a national bowel cancer screening programme. Only three dhbs screen for the disease, which kills 1200 people a year. Audio

Harry Willis,11, has set a world record by pogo-jumping up the world's steepest street in Dunedin, raising $7000 for his sister's cancer charity. Video, Audio

Christchurch music teacher and father-of-two Jonathan Densem has inoperable brain cancer. This year he fulfilled a dream of recording his debut album at Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios. Video, Audio

John Bluck traces the course of his treatment for cancer in a series of candid, moving, and wry observations about how his life changed because of what he experienced. Episode 6. Audio

Counsel in Concert is a group of lawyers and friends who perform a big charity concert at the end of the year for the Child Cancer Foundation. Oboist Merran Cooke is one of the founders of the annual… Audio

The traditional way of diagnosing if someone has cancer involves blood tests, medical imaging and taking tissue samples or biopsies. But a team from The Broad Institute in Massachusetts are using… Audio

John Bluck traces the course of his treatment for cancer in a series of candid, moving, and wry observations about how his life changed because of what he experienced. Episode 5. Audio

Science news with Dr Chris Smith, and how some parasites, like intestinal worms, suppress a hosts's immune system to stop them from being attacked. Also cancers carry microbes with them when they… Audio

Twenty four people in Dunedin have been told they have cancer after getting long awaited biopsies in a weekend superclinic. Chief medical officer Nigel Millar says that's not good enough. Video, Audio

Calls are being made for mandatory & more regular testing of sunscreens, as Consumer NZ releases its full report into failing sun protection products. Unlike in Australia, sunscreens here are… Audio

John Bluck traces the course of his treatment for cancer in a series of candid, moving, and wry observations about how his life changed because of what he experienced. Episode 4. Audio

John Bluck traces the course of his treatment for cancer in a series of candid, moving, and wry observations about how his life changed because of what he experienced. Episode 3. Audio

Alex Mariakakis is developing apps that will use smartphone cameras to provide a quick and early diagnosis of concussion, jaundice and even pancreatic cancer. Audio, Gallery

Could filter cigarettes, touted and sold to us by the tobacco industry since the 1960s as a safer way to smoke, and still believed by many smokers to make their habit less dangerous, actually be… Audio