Beyond Five Changes Name to Head and Neck Cancer Australia

28 September 2020 Beyond Five is excited to announce that we have changed our name to Head and Neck Cancer Australia. Since our launch in late 2016 we have become well-respected within the head and neck cancer community including among patients, families, carers and healthcare professionals. We provide a centralised hub of comprehensive, evidence-based and easy to

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Head and Neck Cancer 2020 Video Series

by Julie McCrossin, North Eastern Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service, 8 September 2020 Julie McCrossin is a freelance journalist and facilitator. Julie is a former broadcaster with 20 years experience working for ABC Radio National, ABC TV and Network Ten. In 2013, she was diagnosed with stage 4 HPV-related oropharyngeal cancer.  She is an Ambassador for Beyond Five, Targeting Cancer and TROG

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Improving the care of people with head and neck cancer: new video series

edited by Melissa Sweet, Croakey, 4 August 2020 Five priority areas to improve the treatment and lives of people with head and neck cancers are highlighted in a unique new video series, reports journalist and cancer survivor Julie McCrossin. The videos also share the stories and questions of survivors, and “tell the blunt truth about how the

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Cancer the leading cause of Indigenous deaths after large spike

Dana McCauley, Sydney Morning Herald, 21 June 2020 Cancer has overtaken circulatory disease as the leading cause of Indigenous deaths in NSW and Victoria, prompting a new campaign aimed at improving screening, treatment and lifestyle factors. John Delaney, a Kamilaroi elder who was diagnosed with lung cancer six years ago, smoked cigarettes for 37 years

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FDA approves Gardasil 9, the HPV vaccine, to prevent head-and-neck cancer

Matthew Herper, STAT, 12 June 2020 For the past decade, evidence has suggested that Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, could stem an epidemic of throat cancer. But it has also never received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for that use — and it was unclear if it ever would. On Friday, the agency granted that

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Novel Radiotherapy Reduces Swallowing Difficulties in Head and Neck Cancer

Cancer Research from Technology Networks, 1 June 2020 A new optimised intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) pioneered at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research, London, has been shown to spare head and neck cancer patients’ adverse life-long side effects post treatment. The initial results from the Dysphagia-Aspiration Related Structures (DARS) trial, funded by Cancer Research

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