Cancer

The Government is promising earlier detection and treatment of cancer in future, including for bowel cancer, in a plan some say is short on detail. Audio

The Health Minister, Jonathan Coleman, is launching the three year cancer plan today at Wellington hospital - the first of its kind since the last one ended in 2010. Audio

Pacific Edge has released another product which winnows out patients who present with blood in their urine, but who probably don't have bladder cancer. Audio

Eleven researchers have been awarded prestigious medals by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Audio

Survival rates for child cancer patients have improved markedly over the past few decades - now at 80 per cent. With so many more survivors, the focus among many in the oncology community is to reduce… Audio

Jordan Green is a biomedical engineer from Johns Hopkins University who's trying to train our immune systems to fight cancer. Audio

Why one should have a better awareness of one's prostate gland? With urologist Frank Kueppers. Audio

Jean Fleming, Professor Emerita at the University of Otago, retired from a long career in health sciences and science communication. On human anatomy, cancer, New Zealand's leading cause of death… Audio

Look Good Feel Better is a free service, supported by the cosmetics industry, that helps cancer patients look good during and after their treatment. We pop into a local workshop to meet Leigh Renai… Audio

If you knew more or less when you were going to die, what would you do? One Auckland man faces up to that prospect… and he talks to David Steemson for Spiritual Outlook. Audio

'You do get tongue-tied,' giggles Marie Hindmarsh, one half of the group Knocker Knitters. 'You were going knicker-knotters at one stage!' laughs her friend and partner in knitting, Christina… Audio

Peter Williams QC is of the country's best known lawyers and advocates for penal reform. During a career of more than 50 years at the bar, he has been involved in NZ's most high profile criminal… Audio

University of Otago haematologists explain how advances in DNA technology are helping them to understand different types of leukaemia. Audio

Karen Brown investigates the on-going debate surrounding prostate cancer. Audio

It is his final week in the role of Otago University Vice Chancellor. He is Professor of Preventive and Social Medicine at the university, and his primary research interest is cancer epidemiology. He… Audio

Karen Brown explores Pharmac's decision to fund a restricted nine-week course of the breast cancer drug, Herceptin Audio