Cancer

What This Covers

• Cancer types: bowel, skin, breast, cervical, prostate, liver
• Screening guidelines and early detection
• Treatment options and managing side effects
• Survivorship and quality of life
• Palliative care and family support

Featured Guides

All Cancer Guides

28 guides

• Cancer — Guide Hub — Cancer is a group of diseases where abnormal cells grow uncontrollably and may spread. Explore guides on lung, bowel, breast, prostate, skin, cervical, liver, and other cancers.
• Colorectal Polyps: What They Mean and When Follow-Up Is Needed — A patient-friendly guide to colorectal polyps, including adenomas, serrated polyps, pathology results, colonoscopy removal, bowel cancer risk, surveillance follow-up, family history, and urgent post-colonoscopy warning signs.
• Palliative Care: Support, Symptoms, and Planning — A patient-friendly guide to palliative care, including symptom control, emotional support, advance care planning, family support, and how it differs from end-of-life care.
• Living With Bowel Cancer — Practical guidance on recovery, lifestyle adjustments, stoma care, and emotional support after a bowel cancer diagnosis.
• Skin Cancer Treatment Options — Treatment of skin cancer may involve surgery, topical therapy, radiotherapy, or systemic therapy depending on the type and stage.
• Bowel Cancer Screening Explained — Who should be screened for bowel cancer, when to start, and how tests like FIT and colonoscopy work.
• Bowel Cancer Survivorship — What to expect after treatment for bowel cancer — monitoring, recovery, and long-term health.
• Breast Cancer — Guide Hub — Guides and resources on breast cancer — risks, screening, treatment, survivorship, and support.
• Liver Cancer: Risks, Detection, and Treatment — Liver cancer often follows long-standing liver disease, including chronic hepatitis B or C and cirrhosis. Learn symptoms, tests, treatment, and prevention.
• Lung Cancer: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment — A patient-friendly guide to lung cancer, including symptoms, risk factors, diagnosis, staging, treatment options, screening, and follow-up.
• Melanoma: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment — A patient-friendly guide to melanoma, including warning signs, skin checks, diagnosis, staging, treatment options, and follow-up.
• Prostate Cancer — Guide Hub — Guides and resources on prostate cancer — risks, screening, treatment, survivorship, and support.
• Skin Cancer: Diagnosis and Treatment — Learn how skin cancer is diagnosed and treated — from skin exams and biopsy to surgery, Mohs surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapies.
• Skin Cancer — Prevention — How to lower your risk of skin cancer with practical, evidence-based strategies.
• Life After Skin Cancer: Survivorship and Support — Living well after skin cancer involves follow-up care, skin checks, sun protection, emotional support, and reducing future risk.
• Skin Cancer — Guide Hub — Skin cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. Explore guides on signs, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
• Understanding Bowel Cancer — An overview of bowel (colorectal) cancer — causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
• Lung Cancer Screening: Low-Dose CT, Benefits, Risks, and Eligibility — A plain-English guide to lung cancer screening with low-dose CT — who qualifies, what pack-years means, what the scan involves, the balance of benefits and risks, and how Australian and international guidelines approach this intervention.
• KRAS Mutations Explained: Why Some Cancer Targets Are Hard to Treat — A clear explanation of KRAS mutations — what KRAS is, how mutations lock cell-signalling on, why KRAS was historically undruggable, how the science shifted, which cancers are affected, and where targeted therapy stands now.
• Pancreatic Cancer: Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment — A patient-focused guide to pancreatic cancer — covering symptoms, why diagnosis is often delayed, how it is staged, surgery, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, biomarker testing, and what the evidence says about prognosis.
• Precision Medicine in Cancer: Biomarkers, Targeted Therapy, and Genetic Testing — A clear guide to precision oncology — how tumours are profiled, what biomarkers mean, how targeted therapy differs from chemotherapy and immunotherapy, what companion diagnostics are, and what the limits of the approach are.
• Testicular Cancer: What Men Need to Know — An evidence-based overview of testicular cancer — a painless lump on the testicle, ultrasound diagnosis, tumour markers, staging, treatment, and prognosis.
• Nicotinamide and Skin Cancer Prevention — Large-scale data show nicotinamide (vitamin B3/niacinamide) can reduce the risk of common nonmelanoma skin cancers, especially when started soon after a first diagnosis.
• Skin Cancer — Warning Signs and Prevention — How to recognize the early warning signs of skin cancer and steps you can take to lower your risk.
• Bowel Cancer Screening — Early Detection Matters — How bowel cancer screening works, who should be tested, and why early detection saves lives.
• Family Risk and Genetics in Bowel Cancer — How family history and inherited conditions affect bowel cancer risk, and when genetic testing is recommended.
• Nutrition Basics for Bowel Cancer — Eating Well During and After Treatment — Dietary guidance to support bowel health, manage treatment side effects, and aid recovery.
• Palliative Care in Bowel Cancer — Comfort, Dignity, and Support — When cure is no longer possible, palliative care focuses on quality of life, symptom relief, and supporting patients and families.