The letter to which I couldn’t reply
With all the investigations, imaging and testing involved in personalising treatments, it can be hard to remember to listen to what the patient is saying. One doctor keeps a letter with him as a permanent [more]
advocacy
Living with cancer: advocates define their priorities for advanced disease
The ABC conference on advanced breast cancer gives centre stage to a group of patients who feel theyve been marginalised and their needs ignored for too long. People who have been treated for early-stage breast [more]
Passport to the future: Improving life for survivors of childhood cancer
By the time they reach 40, survivors of childhood cancers are likely to have at least one chronic health problem resulting from their treatment. The search is now on for ways to help people manage [more]
Lynn Faulds Wood: tell it like it is
Doctors don’t know best if they haven’t been trained. Embarrassment isn’t the reason why colon cancer is picked up late. People will watch TV programmes that talk sense about cancer. Journalist and cancer survivor Lynn [more]
Stella Kyriakides: the torch bearer
When Dolly Triantafyllides, a prominent member of Cypriot society, contracted breast cancer in the late 1960s, she broke with traditional taboos and went public, becoming one of the island’s first advocates. Many years after her [more]