Cancer

Chris Eden was diagnosed with incurable lymphatic cancer in 2005. Then he came up with a simple(ish) plan: ride a motorcycle solo across, round or through every continent in the world. So far he's… Audio, Gallery

Dr Nicholas Fleming has been awarded a $600,000 fellowship fund to investigate how an individualised approach to testing cancer patient's tumours could help patients receive the most effective… Audio

Skin cancer expert Dr Sharad Paul talks to Jesse about the most common types of cancer affecting New Zealanders. Audio

A group of MPs spent five days travelling through Tonga and Fiji. Were they on a junket or was it work? Daniela Maoate-Cox follows them through Suva, Fiji to find out. Audio

Lung cancer patients with a rare form of the disease are being offered a free medicine from Roche pharmaceuticals which helps stop its spread. Lung Foundation CEO Philip Hope talks to Jesse Mulligan… Audio

More needs to be done to eliminate preventable cancers in the Pacific, and to control others, a leading researcher says. Audio

New research out of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne shows that exposure to a chemical in commonly used plastic items increasing your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Audio

Public health professor Thomas Novotny from San Diego State University's School of Public Health has just co-authored an editorial in The British Medical Journal calling for a ban on filtered… Audio

Monash University professor Rachelle Buchbinder has spent decades trying to stop doctors from making bad backs worse. She explains why most people should be treating their back pain like the common… Audio

Efforts to confront two different but potentially deadly diseases hit the headlines this past week. Both were complicated stories impressively reported and explained by the media - but sometimes… Audio

An ageing and growing population means the number of New Zealanders diagnosed with cancer is predicted to double by 2040. This is just one of the challenges facing University of Otago epidemiologist… Audio

Cancer patients are crying out for much more radical change, saying the country's new action plan doesn't go far enough and the funding boost is just a drop in the ocean.

The government announced the… Audio

The boss of the agency set up to ensure Māori get the same chance of surviving cancer as Pākēhā doesn't know if that's achievable within the 10-year time frame the government's set.

Māori are 20… Video, Audio

The government announced some big moves over the weekend to help to fund and monitor cancer treatment. Advocate Blair Vining joins us with his assessment. Audio

Heartbreaking stories of cancer sufferers who need expensive and unfunded drugs abound. But some of those stories are helped into the spotlight by the drug companies that will also benefit.  Audio

The Lung Cancer Foundation New Zealand chief executive Philip Hope speaks with Karyn about Pharmac's announcement to fund more drugs for lung cancer. Audio

New Zealand medical researchers say thousands of Pacific people are dying from a lack of cancer treatment. Audio

The Greens conference, climate policy, the Government's cancer plan and reaction to the super polytech announcement are up for discussion today.  Audio