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University of NSW researchers are gaining international recognition by using open data to prove why preventing cancer means taking care of your body.

Over 2000 women in NSW aged 50-74 may have breast cancer and not know it, data from BreastScreen NSW shows.

As the days get shorter and the temperature slowly drops across the state, the Cancer Institute NSW is urging young Aussies to stay sun safe in the face of an off-season burn.

Most people unfortunately know the ache of sunburn – worse, many people know the pain and loss of skin cancer – but do we really understand what’s behind it all?

Lynch Syndrome Awareness Day on Tuesday, 22 March is striving to shine a light nationwide on this lesser known genetic disease, and it’s got the help of some award winning research.

New research led by Cancer Institute NSW fellow Dr Pradeep Tanwar is linking the combined oral contraceptive pill to reducing the risk of ovarian cancer in women.

Looking to the past, it’s promising to see how far we’ve come in treating, detecting and reducing cancers worldwide.

This World Cancer Day, 4 February, at the Cancer Institute NSW we’re saying “We Can. I Can” end cancers as we know them.

A new study shows over 100 lives and $60 million were saved in NSW over eight years due to skin cancer campaigns.

A recent paper from the Cancer Institute NSW and NSW Health, published in Public Health Research & Practice, has found that control measures such as tobacco tax and smoke free environments have influenced the decline in NSW youth smoking rates to a record low of only 6.7 per cent.