The roll-out of a new screening program for cervical cancer has been delayed, leaving Australian women understandably confused about if or when they need Pap smears. Here’s what they need to know.
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Women are told it’s important to self-check their breasts. But is this true?
Almost three in four Australian children consume too much sugar, 91.5% of young people don’t get enough exercise, and we’re among the most obese people in the world.
Too many people literally are dying of embarrassment.
In news which may come as a relief to apprehensive men and short-fingered doctors alike, guidelines are now changing.
Screening may save lives but it comes with a cost - and sometimes unbearable decisions - that shouldn’t be underestimated.
Long gone are the days when breast cancer was seen as a tumour with an underlying relationship with oestrogen. The picture is much more complex.
The big surprise about this year’s health budget was what wasn’t there – billions of dollars in expected savings from the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Screening can save lives, which is why the NHS offers checks for breast, cervical and bowel cancers. Breast screening tries to pick up cancer at an early stage when it may be more treatable. Cervical screening…
Screening for prostate cancer using the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test for men with no symptoms is controversial: experts are divided, and Australians are not routinely well-informed. Prostate cancer…
Cancer screening is beneficial when it’s able to prevent people dying from cancer. And it should clearly be adopted where there’s evidence showing this. But using cancer survival rates to promote screening…
Across 38 years in tobacco control, I have been asked countless times in media interviews if I ever smoked. It’s often an early question. I always unhesitatingly explain that I did: I stopped in my mid…
“It might do me some good and it won’t hurt to give it a go.” How often have you heard a phrase like this? Most people have naïve optimism about medical care. That’s the finding of a systematic review…
We’ve known for some time that women with dense breasts are at higher risk of breast cancers that are difficult to detect by mammography. To address this problem, 19 US states have introduced laws requiring…
Cancer Council Australia and the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia yesterday released new draft guidelines to help GPs counsel men who ask about prostate cancer tests. They advise GPs to explain…
Lung cancer kills more people each year than any other cancer because it’s common and because the majority of patients only start to show symptoms after the disease is already advanced. Despite this there…
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Lead, Cancer Elimination Collaboration (CEC) and Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
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NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, Bond University
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Professor of General Practice, Bond University
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Principal Research Fellow, The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Brett Montgomery is a Friend of The Conversation.
Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Western Australia
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Director of the Colorado Cancer Screening Program, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Bond University
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Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Health Economics, University of Technology Sydney