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- Alcohol increases cancer risk, but don't trust the booze industry to give you the facts straight
- Are Aussies becoming sun-slackers?
- Australia's Biggest Morning Tea turns 20 - a time to reflect on progress in cancer control
- Australia's new cervical cancer screening program: your FAQs answered
- Australia should throw its weight behind a sugar tax
- Australian cancer research - Are we really getting closer to a cancer free future?
- Australian study first to assess 'real world' impact of HPV vaccine on cervical cancer
- Bust the myth: what's fact or fiction when it comes to cancer?
- Cancer, your work and you: should you tell your employer and colleagues about your diagnosis?
- Cancer Council and sunscreens: what you need to know this summer
- Cancer doesn't discriminate by culture - nor should we
- Cancer in the workplace is a growing issue. Is your organisation ready?
- Cancer risks in the workplace - the job's not done - yet
- Cancer Survivorship Webinar
- CATCH UP. RAISE FUNDS. SAVE LIVES.
- Come on boys, let's learn from the girls and reduce our cancer risk
- Does an aspirin a day keep cancer away?
- Don’t sit still, create a Daffodil!
- Downsizing in the Big Apple
- Drill into that wall at your peril!
- Embracing a cancer smart lifestyle
- Every cancer patient should be prescribed exercise medicine
- Everyone should be talking about it: the free cancer test waiting to save almost 84,000 Australian lives
- Everything does not give you cancer, so avoid the things that might
- Extreme caution needed on electronic cigarettes
- Finding the cancer at the bottom of the pile
- Get your parents to screen for bowel cancer
- Health Check: does alcohol cause cancer?
- Health Check: what does the UV Index mean?
- Hillcrest Is Being SunSmart
- Historic day in health, as plain tobacco packs hit the shelves
- How Australia's new cervical screening program will save lives
- How does sunscreen work, what is SPF, and can I tan with it on?
- How sexual assault survivors can feel in control during cervical screenings
- How to help people with cancer during COVID-19 when you don't have much to give
- How to prepare for a telehealth consultation
- How to tick bowel screening off your to-do list
- How we could use our existing health system to better diagnose and treat forgotten cancers
- How worried should we be about nanoparticles in sunscreen?
- If you see us on the streets this Friday, here's why
- Introducing Gather My Crew, the online tool to help those in a health crisis
- Ireland's World No Tobacco Day move makes plain sense
- Is your job increasing your cancer risk?
- Australia, it's time to get serious about sun protection.
- Here are the nine things you should know about the new cervical screening program
- Let's keep the alcohol industry honest
- Living with loss in the holiday season
- Looking after yourself when you're caring for someone with cancer
- Lung cancer is Australia’s biggest cancer killer – we need to act now
- Lung cancer patients deserve greater support, whether they smoke or not
- Mammogram still best option for breast checks
- Medical myth: natural cancer therapies can't harm you
- Why men with cancer need improved emotional support throughout their cancer experience
- Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is fairest of them all?
- Mum, Dad? What's cancer?
- 12 Tips to Reduce Your Alcohol Intake
- 5 questions women have about Cervical Screening Tests
- New year's resolutions for a healthier you
- No magic bullet but cancer is no longer a death sentence
- Not everything gives you cancer, but eating too much processed meat certainly can
- Now is not the time for Australians to lose confidence in sunscreen
- What’s next in your NETs experience? Know what to expect at every step
- Out with traffic lights, in with stars - next steps for food labelling
- Plain packaging will work
- Progress in cancer treatment and care
- Prostate cancer tests are great for some but bring hidden problems to many
- Radiation in Japan: what is the cancer risk?
- Real stories: Raymond Mee
- Recommended cervical screening changes will save more lives, but let's not lose any in the meantime
- Searching for cancer information online
- Seize the Day Educational Scholarships
- Skin cancer: If in doubt, check it out
- Supporting your family through a cancer diagnosis in the midst of a pandemic
- Tasmania; one of the highest participation rates in the Bowel Cancer Screening
- Taxing sugary drinks would boost productivity, not just health
- The benefits of BreastScreen outweigh the problems
- The birth of Slip, Slop, Slap and the science behind nation-wide behaviour change
- The evidence is in - plain packs are working
- The skin damage I see doesn't just happen at the beach
- The US has decided you can't patent a gene - it's time for Australia to do the same
- Think treating skin cancer is always easy? Think again.
- This is the best way to find breast cancer early
- Three charts on: cancer rates in Australia, where liver cancer is on the rise while other types fall
- Three things you need to know about cervical screening
- Tradies beware: Five workplace cancer risk factors
- The job's not done until we're all safe in the sun
- Finding breast cancers early - a roadmap for personalised screening
- Mandatory Health Star Ratings - a quick way to select foods when shopping
- Protecting your skin from incidental sun exposure
- Vitamin D and sun protection
- Vitamin pills' role in recovering from cancer
- We don't make this stuff up, alcohol is a proven killer
- Globally, and at home, we need a plan to reduce cancer inequalities
- What are cancer clusters?
- What happens to your skin when you get sunburnt?
- What happens to your skin when you get sunburnt? A dermatologist explains
- What restrictions lifting means for people affected by cancer
- What’s the bravest thing we can do for cancer this World Cancer Day?
- What should I do if someone I love smokes?
- When cancer strikes - how to be a friend
- When it comes to skin cancer, early detection is the key
- Why it’s important to protect your skin at every age- a dermatologist explains
- Why it’s not just up to smokers to ‘Commit to Quit’ this World No Tobacco Day
- Why there has never been a better time to quit than now
- Why we need to turn up the heat on sun safety
- World Health Organisation strategy for eliminating cervical cancer
- World leading research confirms regular sunscreen use can prevent melanoma
- Young or old, there's nothing healthy about a tan
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- Alcohol brands using non-alcoholic products to target kids and adolescents
- Aussies urged to take a half-time toilet break for bowel cancer this State of Origin series
- Australia has the potential to reduce lung cancer deaths, major international clinical trials show
- Battle of the poos: which regions lead the bowel screening battle?
- Bronzed Aussies don’t link tanning with skin cancer
- Calls for equal access to cancer care in Australia, as February 4 marks World Cancer Day
- Cancer charities call for better disclosure on cost of treatment
- Cancer Council: MSAC approval takes Australian women one step closer to doing their own cervical screening tests
- Cancer Council applauds US ban on menthol in tobacco, calls for Australia to follow
- Cancer Council calls for stronger action on e-cigarettes as landmark study shows young Australians are most at risk
- Cancer Council calls for urgent investment in a National Tobacco Campaign, as May 31 marks World No Tobacco Day
- Cancer Council calls on all political parties to reduce the impact of cancer, as the federal election campaign gets firmly underway
- Cancer Council calls on Federal government support to keep all Aussies safe in the sun
- Cancer Council cautiously welcomes new Australian Bureau of Statistics data showing record low percentages of Australian smoking
- Cancer Council commends the Australian Government on release of the National Preventative Health Strategy
- Cancer Council condemns unhealthy food and drink advertising as pester power prevails
- Cancer Council congratulates the Federal Government on announcing decisive actions to address vaping epidemic and smoking
- Cancer Council strongly urges Australians against aerosol sunscreens
- Cancer Council warns that the government’s goals for smoking prevalence will only be possible with ongoing funding to tackle Indigenous smoking
- Cancer Council welcomes ban on engineered stone products, protecting the lungs of thousands of Australian workers
- Cancer Council welcomes federal government action to support more Australians affected by cancer
- Cancer Council welcomes Federal Government’s commitment to strengthening tobacco law enforcement
- Cancer Council welcomes landmark legislation to reignite the fight against smoking and nicotine addiction
- Cancer Council welcomes National Strategy for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer in Australia
- Cancer Council welcomes new laws aimed at reversing the crisis of e-cigarette use in young Australians
- Cancer Council welcomes new reforms that will bring Australia’s tobacco control into the 21st century
- Cancer Council welcomes release of National Tobacco Strategy, restoring Australia’s commitment to reduce smoking rates
- Cancer Council welcomes the launch of the National Lung Cancer Screening Program
- Cancer is on the rise. But is it all bad? Award winning Australian Cancer Atlas doubles down on the digits
- Concerning new data shows three in four Australian adults are misled by health-related claims on alcohol labels
- Doctors.com.au partner with Cancer Council on a mission to save lives
- Food marketing codes fail to protect children from junk food ads
- From dogs sniffing cancer to alternative therapies Cancer Council bust the myths
- HPV testing picks up cancers missed by Pap tests
- Leading health organisations unite behind e-cigarette reforms protecting young Australians
- Making the case: Why the Australian health system needs to do more to help smokers quit
- Push for teens to find their feet as daily active travel rates take a step back
- 1000 more teenagers will take up vaping every week, if Parliament delays critical vaping bill
- 10-year anniversary of sunbed ban a stark reminder that no tan is worth dying for
- Australian men urged to reduce their risk of skin cancer with new research showing they are less likely than women to use sun protection
- Cancer Council warns alcohol industry must not call the shots on alcohol advertising
- Cancer Council welcomes landmark national lung cancer screening
- Cancer Council welcomes the first Roadmap to Liver Cancer Control and Clinical Guidelines
- Cancer Council Australia welcomes $10m Australian Government investment in a national skin cancer prevention campaign this National Skin Cancer Action Week
- Australia on track to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer, but Cancer Council urges that community engagement is key
- Landmark LGBTQI+ cancer resource released in Australia
- Men with a history of melanoma have higher risk of prostate cancer
- New data reveals nine in ten Australians want government action to stop Australia’s escalating e-cigarette crisis
- New research shows more than three times as many cancers are attributable to physical inactivity than previously estimated
- New research shows rates of obesity-related cancers quadrupled in a generation
- An estimated 209,000 people will be living with cancer by the next decade
- Aussie teens who have vaped five times more likely to then try smoking
- Australian teenagers say zero alcohol products are appealing and could act as a gateway to alcohol use
- Australians aged 45 to 49 to benefit from life-saving bowel screening test
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Cancer Council Australia welcomes Mark Nevin as new CEO
- Cancer Council Australia welcomes Professor Maxine Morand AM as new Chair
- Cancer Council urges the Australian Government to strengthen Australia’s legacy in cancer control and care this World Cancer Day
- Cancer Council welcomes the passage of the vaping legislation that marks essential progress towards driving down Australia’s vaping rates
- Concerning new data shows almost half of Australians aren’t using adequate sun protection
- Incoming Parliament must act, as new data reveals that nearly 1 in 2 Australians think the country is unprepared for a rise in cancer diagnoses
- MSAC recommendation takes Australia one step closer to a national lung cancer screening program
- New research finds Aussie teens find illegal vapes easy to access
- New research reveals more than 8.6 million Australians would be misled by sugar and carbohydrate claims on alcohol products, prompting urgent call to action from top health groups
- New research reveals young adults agree that vapes must not be available in retail outlets
- New survey shows most people who vape want to quit, and Bill before Parliament must be supported to end non-therapeutic vape sales
- Plans to regulate and tax vapes will put the health of Australians at risk
- Public health leaders welcome Diabetes Inquiry push for Australia to tax sugary drinks
- Safeguarding Australia’s position as tobacco control leaders - new smoking health warnings, pack inserts and a ban on menthols from April 1
- Tobacco and nicotine industry exploits young people as new data reveals 1 in 5 young adults regularly use nicotine products
- 5 in 6 Aussie teens not meeting the recommended guidelines for physical activity
- New research: 1.4 million Australians will die of cancer in the next 25 years unless governments intervene now
- New research shows furry friends help support mental health in cancer survivors
- New research shows menthol in tobacco products keeps smokers hooked
- New resources to help people with rare and less common cancers
- New study challenges findings used by tobacco and e-cigarette manufacturers to lobby against effective policies
- New study finds alcohol companies trying to fool consumers with ‘better-for-you’ marketing tactics
- Over half a million life-saving tests in 3 months – Cancer Council asks, have you missed out?
- Screening by self-collection a ‘game-changer’ for eliminating cervical cancer in Australia
- Sports stars Michael Klim and Brad Hodge team up as new research shows men aren’t protecting themselves in the sun
- Flood cleanups pose risk of cancer
- Alarming new data reveals 9 in 10 teens find access to illegal vapes easy.
- Alarming data prompts international expert's calls for stronger policy to protect Australian kids from junk food advertising
- Tradies aren’t protecting against skin cancer despite up to ten times higher UV exposure
- Australians overwhelmingly support action to protect young people from e-cigarettes
- Cancer Council welcomes the national ban on engineered stone coming into effect, safeguarding the lungs of thousands of Australian workers
- New ASSAD data show vaping increasing rapidly and concerning rise in smoking susceptibility among 12-17 year olds
- Cancer Council warns urgent intergovernmental action is essential to stop an “epidemic of e-cigarette use among young people”
- Updated guidelines on eligibility for colorectal cancer screening to reduce the impact of bowel cancer
- Updated guidelines prepare health professionals for cervical screening ‘game-changer’
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