Cancer


ROUND-UP: Mobile phones and risk of brain tumours (BMJ*) – experts respond

Fri Oct 21, 2011

Embargo lifted 9.30am AEDT Friday October 21, 2011
Danish researchers have investigated the risk of brain tumours in connection with mobile phones based on a study of 358,403 mobile phone subscribers over an 18 year period. It should be noted that the study is based on data from people with a mobile phone contract and does [...]

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RAPID ROUNDUP: Dogs can sniff out cancer (GUT) – experts respond

Tue Feb 1, 2011

EMBARGO LIFTED AT 10.30AM AEDT, TUESDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2011
Japanese scientists have found that dogs can distinguish people with colorectal cancer by the smell of their breath. It is thought that dogs can smell a chemical produced by the cancer cells which circulates in the blood and is present in the breath of people with colorectal [...]

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RAPID ROUNDUP: Cancer survival is higher in Australia, Canada and Sweden than in UK and Denmark (The Lancet) – experts respond

Wed Dec 22, 2010

Embargo lifted at 11am AEDT Wednesday 22 December
Australian researchers contribute to an international study showing that for four major cancers (breast, ovarian, colorectal, and lung), survival rates at both 1 and 5 years are higher in Australia, Canada, and Sweden than in the UK and Denmark, while in Norway survival rates are intermediate. The results, [...]

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MEDIA BRIEFING: Sunscreens and your health

Tue Nov 2, 2010

ONLINE BACKGROUND BRIEFING - Wed 3 November 10.30am AEDT online
Australians have a love affair with the sun, however this also means we have the highest rate of skin cancer of anywhere in the world. In fact, over two-thirds of Australians will have a skin cancer at some stage during their life. With another sun-drenched summer [...]

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RAPID ROUNDUP: No link between early child cancers and living near mobile phone masts (BMJ) - Experts respond

Wed Jun 23, 2010

A new study from the UK suggests there is no association between risk of early childhood cancers and a mother’s exposure to a mobile phone base station during pregnancy. This is the first study to look at phone masts in Britain as a whole and is the largest of its kind.

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MEDIA BRIEFING: Mobile phones and cancer – Interphone study

Mon May 17, 2010

NATIONAL MEDIA BRIEFING - Tue 18 May at 10.15am AEST in Sydney (Also available online)
Media reports this week have suggested a link between mobile phones and cancer. The reports are based on results of the Interphone study, the largest epidemiological study into mobile phones and cancer carried out to date. But what does the study actually [...]

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RAPID ROUNDUP: Mobile phones and cancer - Interphone study (International Journal of Epidemiology) - Experts respond

Mon May 17, 2010

Increasing mobile phone use has led to public concern about possible cancer risks.  Interphone is an interview-based, case-control study of mobile phone use in adults and focuses on the two main types of brain tumour, glioma and meningioma.  It was coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and carried out in 13 [...]

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RAPID ROUNDUP: Single test could dramatically reduce bowel cancer risk (Lancet) – Experts respond

Wed Apr 28, 2010

A one-off screening test between the ages of 55 and 64 years could reduced colorectal cancer mortality by 43% in those screened and incidence by one third. These are findings of a long-term UK study reported in The Lancet. Participants in the study underwent an examination of the lower colon and rectum by flexible sigmoidoscopy, which uses a flexible scope - about the width of a pencil.

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