Following years of campaigning for the breast screening age to be raised to 74, Breast Cancer Foundation NZ (BCFNZ) is welcoming Dr Shane Reti’s Private Member’s Bill proposing to amend the Pae Ora (Health Futures) Act to include breast screening within the Women’s Health Strategy
A group of Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei artists, Te Puāwai weavers, has joined an effort to try and turn around plummeting breast screening numbers for wāhine Māori
FIT testing for symptomatic patients is beneficial for determining patients at high risk of colon cancer, so why are GPs not allowed to request it, asks emeritus GPJim Vause
Lung cancer and improving the diagnostic process by sampling circulating tumour DNA in blood, is at the heart of research that has won the 2022 Roche Translational Cancer Research Fellowship (RTCRF)
Specialist GP Nikki Vadgama provides some tips to make your next paediatric eczema consult easier. She includes a review of new guidelines, resources, websites and medications for paediatric eczema management