A 2022 report on access to cancer drugs was never meant to be used to provide a list of medicines that should be funded, Cancer Control Agency Te Aho o Te Kahu chief executive Rami Rahal says
Northland surgeon Dr Maxine Ronald (Te Kapotai ki Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Rangi) has been named the inaugural Māori Breast Cancer Research Leadership Fellow, in a bid to address the disparities faced by wāhine Māori and Pasifika women affected by breast cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand
King Charles III has taken over his father’s role as patron of the UK’s Royal College of GPs, but RNZCGP president Samantha Murton confirmed the organisation is continuing with governor-general Dame Cindy Kiro
Government ministers are rushing for cover in the wake of widespread criticism of the Budget’s failure to deliver on an election promise of funding for 13 cancer drugs
The Cancer Society of New Zealand is deeply disappointed by the lack of additional funding for cancer medicines in today’s Budget 2024 announcement and is concerned by a number of important items that are notably absent
Ah-Leen Rayner, chief executive of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ, said: “The $31.2 million to gradually extend free breast screening will give older women the best chance of having their breast cancer diagnosed early, so it’s excellent news this election promise is being fulfilled and we’re eager to understand how and when it will be rolled out
The Malaghan Institute of Medical Research and BioOra Limited applied to use chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells in a phase 2 clinical trial for patients suffering from a type of blood cancer called relapsed large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma
One in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those diagnosed live more than five years.
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