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The new cocoon "can basically do everything you would do in a lab, in this one little sealed unit."
Cancer

‘First centre in the world to have this’: Revolutionary new cancer treatment arrives in NZ

"You can basically do everything you would do in a lab, in this one little sealed unit."

As the country ground to a halt under level 4 lockdown so did the picking of tight daffodil buds, which will be left to ruin.
Cancer

Lockdown ruins peak picking season for Daffodil Day

COVID's also cancelled the Cancer Society's street appeal which was meant to be on Friday.
Cancer patients who require Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy will no longer have to travel across the ditch.
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Cancer

No more sending Kiwis across the ditch as new national cancer treatment service opens

"This treatment can give them quality time with those who matter to them."
Watch: Auckland Uni's Dr Lisa Reynolds is preparing a ground-breaking study to see if LSD microdoses can help advanced-stage cancer patients with their anxiety, depression and existential distress.
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Cancer

'Help for people who are facing death': Inside the Kiwi LSD microdose trial for advanced-stage cancer patients

Auckland Uni's Dr Lisa Reynolds is preparing a ground-breaking study to see if it can help their anxiety, depression and existential distress.
Cabinet Minister Kiri Allan has stage 3 cervical cancer.
Cancer

Kiri Allan's cancer diagnosis ignites calls for HPV self-testing

The Labour MP announced she has stage 3 cervical cancer on Tuesday.
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Cancer

The Big Picture: Melanoma

The number of people dying from melanoma cancer has doubled in 20 years. What's being done about it?
A groundbreaking treatment to prevent breast cancer could provide a simpler alternative to mastectomies.
Cancer

Groundbreaking treatment could prevent breast cancer without requiring mastectomy

Scientists are testing DNA for breast cancer-causing high-risk gene mutations.

Women under 45 often have poorer outcomes and the new research hopes to explain why.
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New study aims to help stop younger women dying from breast cancer

Women under 45 often have poorer outcomes and the new research hopes to explain why.
High power photomicrograph of a serous papillary carcinoma of the ovary, an aggressive type of ovarian cancer.
Cancer

Ground-breaking cancer research uses Nobel Prize-winning technology

The method is so specific it's as if "tiny scissors" are used to destroy the cancerous cells.