Cancer
Surgeons fear wave of lawsuits over delays to cancer treatment
Leading doctors issue warning after Covid forces hospitals to postpone scans and urgent operations
Denis Campbell
07, Mar, 2021 @11:30 AM
The epic battle with cancer's 'Death Star'
Forty years after the mutant genes that cause the deadliest cancers were discovered, drugs that target them could be approved
David Cox
06, Mar, 2021 @5:00 PM
Hilary Craft obituary
Other Lives: Charity fundraiser who helped to raise millions for cancer research in the UK
Maurice Craft
02, Mar, 2021 @1:10 PM
Fears late cancer diagnoses in Victoria because of Covid could cause fatal spike
Cancer Council says there was 30% drop in certain diagnostic procedures and an 18% drop in treatments during pandemic
Matilda Boseley
28, Feb, 2021 @4:30 PM
Shelby Sherritt: the Ballarat cancer survivor who became a TikTok pottery queen
Once known as the 20-year-old who survived cancer, Shelby Sherritt now has half-a-million TikTok followers who are more interested in her art
Matilda Boseley
27, Feb, 2021 @7:00 PM
Home smear tests will be a game-changer | Letter
Letter: Judith Walker thinks home testing is an excellent idea, but urges people not to blame or shame women who currently don’t take part
Letters
26, Feb, 2021 @5:11 PM
Please make use of the life-saving smear tests we fought for | Letter
Letter: Helen Keating on efforts by her and the Guardian to raise awareness of cervical screening
Letters
25, Feb, 2021 @5:34 PM
Nearly half with cancer symptoms in the UK did not see GP in first wave of pandemic
People avoided seeking medical help during first lockdown because they did not want to burden NHS
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
25, Feb, 2021 @7:01 AM
Home smear tests to be trialled in London, following lockdown delays
Self-testing hailed as a ‘gamechanger’ in preventing cervical cancers for women who are reluctant to attend GP surgeries
Sarah Marsh
24, Feb, 2021 @12:01 AM
Ending the horror of seeing your face on Zoom | Brief letters
Brief letters:
Letters
22, Feb, 2021 @5:28 PM
After the Nobel, what next for Crispr gene-editing therapies?
Hailed as the ‘molecular scissors’ that will allow us to rewrite our genes, the DNA tool is being trialled in treatments for everything from sickle-cell anaemia to cancer
Philip Ball
21, Feb, 2021 @9:00 AM
British grief centres mainly around the making of sandwiches | Grace Dent
‘I’ve deliberated many times about discussing grief in a food column – you’re possibly here to read about new ways with couscous – yet the two topics are more linked than one might imagine’
Grace Dent
19, Feb, 2021 @10:00 AM
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