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    Tag: Oncology

    What a dying patient’s handshake taught me about life and love

    June 18, 2025

    I was working in my oncology ward as usual when I received a call from the ICU to evaluate a patient. The patient was a…

    Diagnosed with cancer as an intern: ‘Everything was white noise — I didn’t know what to do or say’

    June 17, 2025

    “When I walked into my postop review, the look in my gynaecologist’s eyes gave me the hint it was not good news. “I have had…

    Persistent pruritus points to a hidden malignancy

    May 10, 2025

    Nick, a 28-year-old male, presents with a primary complaint of generalised itching for the past 3-4 weeks. He reports no accompanying rash and denies recent…

    Government apologises to journalists for false chemo claims… oncologists still waiting

    April 17, 2025

    The NSW Government has apologised to the media for falsely declaring that 468 chemotherapy sessions had been cancelled as a result of the strike by…

    Medical Must-See: A tumour that takes an average of four years to diagnose

    April 4, 2025

    A five-year diagnostic delay sounds terrible unless you know that, for insulinoma, a 4.3-year delay is the average. That is the takeaway from this Nepalese…

    Australia’s first anal cancer screening guidelines released, but there’s a catch

    April 2, 2025

    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…

    ‘It looks like I will be passing away,’ says Professor Richard Scolyer after glioblastoma returns

    March 11, 2025

    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

    March 7, 2025

    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

    March 6, 2025

    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

    February 20, 2025

    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…

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