The New South Wales (NSW) Cancer Council’s “ditch the ham sandwich” campaign for students’ school lunches has been met with intense backlash from around the Australian state with critics slamming the advertising campaign as “politically correct messages” that had gone “too far.” The NSW Cancer Council’s leaflets on the “ditch the ham sandwich” campaign were sent…

A new non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) treatment is being trialled in Australia for efficacy and comfort, quality of life and cosmetic outcomes for patients. “Australia has the highest incidence of NMSCs in the world, so it is imperative that we investigate new treatment options and continue to improve patient outcomes,” Siddhartha Baxi, a researcher of…

Experts are concerned that the decline in cancer diagnosis in Victoria for the 2020 period is not indicative of a reduction in prevalence of disease, but rather of missed and delayed diagnosis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Across the world, cancer diagnosis has decreased in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cancer in Victoria…