Cancer

A National Government will pay for 13 cancer treatments that are helping extend survival rates in Australia, by making them available to patients in New Zealand, National Leader Christopher Luxon says.

Treatments for cancer will soon be at the same level as those used on HIV and COVID-19, says David Thomas, principal research fellow and chief executive of Australian genomic cancer medicine centre Omico

A prostate cancer patient has become the first person in New Zealand to receive radiation treatment using ground-breaking new radiation technology

A Feilding pharmacist has sold his share of a Whanganui pharmacy and is biking more than 6000 kilometres around the country to raise money for two causes close to his heart 

Virginia McMillan follows up on the cancer-drug trial she first reported in 2017, when patients with glioblastoma were being recruited to test a regimen of repurposed drugs

As Life Pharmacy Prices’ Nikki Welsh faces a stage-four cancer diagnosis, her staff of 61 are fundraising via a givealittle page to provide financial support to her family while they spend as much time with her as possible, Paulette Crowley reports

As Life Pharmacy Prices’ Nikki Welsh faces a stage-four cancer diagnosis, her staff of 61 are fundraising via a givealittle page to provide financial support to her family while they spend as much time with her as possible 

More than 1000 New Zealand cancer patients a year are missing out on gold-standard cancer drugs readily available in Australia

We are on our summer break and the editorial office is closed until 17 January. In the meantime, please enjoy our Summer Hiatus series, an eclectic mix from our news and clinical archives and articles from The Conversation throughout the year

Christchurch pharmacist Sarah Mooney takes a look at the most common cancers in New Zealand – skin cancers – then discusses what you can do to promote prevention in community pharmacy