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Published date 19 May 2026
A new training for clinical trial staff is helping to ensure language is not a barrier to accessing potentially life-changing clinical trials.
Published date 06 February 2025
In Australia, two in three people with cancer who are at end of life receive specialist palliative care. In this stage of a person’s cancer journey, the focus is on ensuring comfort, symptom relief and helping them live their life as fully as possible.
Published date 10 October 2024
A cancer diagnosis has a profound impact on someone’s life and their loved ones. Their world is often turned upside down with the sudden change and uncertainty that cancer brings, but support is available.
Published date 22 March 2024
Pink Sari is delivering this life-changing support to people from South Asian communities and their carers through a pilot project supported by the Cancer Institute NSW.
Published date 04 August 2020
For people with cancer and their families, the costs associated with diagnosis and treatment can be an additional source of stress, and even lead to financial hardship.
Published date 04 August 2020
An increasing number of people who smoke are reaching out to support services in NSW, with new data highlighting COVID-19 may be giving them even more reason to quit.
Published date 10 August 2020
New support groups are bringing together women from Arabic and Vietnamese backgrounds in south western Sydney to help each other through their cancer journeys.
Published date 15 May 2020
Young people in Australia need more support to help life continue after cancer – Dr Antoinette Anazodo is determined to make this happen.
Published date 15 May 2020
One session of shisha or water-pipe smoking lasting an hour can be as harmful as smoking 100-200 cigarettes.
Published date 15 May 2020
Tony Maxwell is helping to change the lives of men with prostate cancer, all while living with his own disease.