Australia’s first anal cancer screening guidelines released, but there’s a catch
Australia has moved a step closer to anal cancer screening for people with HIV with the release of new best practice guidelines. The guidelines, released…
Tag: Cancer
‘CT in a truck’ fleet won’t be ready when national lung cancer screening starts
GPs will start screening patients for lung cancer in July but outback towns will not see the promised mobile CT scanners until at least November,…
‘It looks like I will be passing away,’ says Professor Richard Scolyer after glioblastoma returns
Professor Richard Scolyer says he only has months to live after surgery confirmed the return of his glioblastoma but he remains grateful to have outlived…
Spot Dx — A navel nodule of note
Alan is a 61-year-old plumber who presents with an umbilical lesion that has been enlarging over the past six months. Test your clinical know-how by…
Why ‘therapeutic nihilism’ threatens the Lung Cancer Screening Program
A sense of pessimism around treatment outcomes and deep-seated stigma risk undermining patient participation in the new Lung Cancer Screening Program, the Lung Foundation Australia…
Doctors allowed to resect seven-year-old’s brain tumour as Jehovah’s Witnesses opt against court fight
Emergency surgery to resect a seven-year-old’s brain tumour will go ahead after the child’s Jehovah’s Witness parents decided not to fight doctors in court over…
Constipation unmasks an unexpected diagnosis
Naomi, an 81-year-old woman, presents to her local ED with intermittent cramping abdominal pain and a paucity of bowel motions. Her bowels have not opened…
Doctor lodges his own MSAC application for $563 ‘virtual colonoscopy’ rebate
After his first battle with the Medical Services Advisory Committee lasted seven years, Associate Professor Tom Sutherland doubted he had strength for another. But the…
Guideline changes extend HPV DNA self-collection option to test of cure
Patients successfully treated for high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions can now be given the option of HPV self-collection under revised test-of-cure advice. Under changes to the…
Let’s talk about your patient’s anus: Doctor on his campaign to end the silence and shame
When Professor Richard Hillman was a boy, a future as one of Australia’s leading anal cancer doctors was not top of his list of dream…
