Across the globe, peer support groups have emerged as a community-led approach to connecting people with cancer experiences and accessing support. Members of cancer support groups seek to help themselves and each other ...

Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer type in males in Australia and radiotherapy provides an efficacious treatment option. However, traditional approaches of radiotherapy apply a uniform high radiation ...

Aberration in signalling pathways due to the overexpression of oncogenes, and/or loss or mutations in tumour suppressors are key events during carcinogenesis. Hence, novel approaches to target oncogenes in order to restore ...

Epidemiological studies demonstrate that women live longer than men following diagnosis of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) even after controlling for prognostic factors. This study examines the one biological trait all ...

The molecular diagnostics of cancer are being transformed globally by the adoption of affordable high-throughput sequencing (HTS) to identify a patient’s genetic changes that can be matched to targeted therapies. However, ...

The mammary gland undergoes significant structural changes throughout both development and reproduction, ultimately allowing for breastfeeding of a newborn. The immune context of the mammary gland is known to assist with ...

The unavoidable irradiation of normal tissue during cancer radiotherapy can lead to serious dose limiting side-effects. For example, radiation-induced oral mucositis associated with head and neck radiotherapy is still a ...

Introduction The management of patients with rectal cancer who develop a pathological complete response (pCR) following neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) presents an ongoing challenge to clinicians. Some authors have ...

This thesis explores the role of nature in cancer patients’ experiences of health and recovery. Using a 2-Phase mixed-method approach, the investigation aimed to generate new theoretical understanding about cancer patients’ ...

Anal squamous cell carcinoma is a human papilloma virus–related disease for which definitive treatment comprises chemoradiotherapy that has not changed substantially for forty years. Few advances in treatment have been ...