Drug lets grandpa tick off bucket list
More than a year after he stopped taking a "game-changer" medicine for advanced melanoma, Bob Hill feels so good he is preparing for a half-marathon.
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Patient: System sends have-nots home to die
Melanoma patient Leisa Renwick is appalled that New Zealand has developed separate health systems for those who can afford treatments and those who can't.
Cancer - the cost of a life: Lung cancer treatment 'frustrating'
Stigma of smoking contributes to the poor-relation status of disease.
The Cost of a Life: Leisa's story
Leisa Renwick, who has melanoma, tells of how she is raising money to pay for necessary medicine.
Tackling 'offensive' stigma of disease
Lung cancer patient John Ashton wants to challenge the stigma around the disease, which experts believe contributes to delayed diagnosis.
Foundation to fight for lung cancer
No charities specifically focus on lung cancer. But that is set to change from today with the launch of the Lung Foundation.
Chris Atkinson: Lung cancer lacks profile of other cancers
Lung cancer also occurs in non-smokers who then also suffer the stigma that "they must have brought the cancer on themselves", writes Chris Atkinson.
Trial offers light in tunnel
Richard Boughtwood is one of the lucky ones - if anyone with lung cancer can be considered lucky.
The Cost of a life: Richard’s story
Richard Boughtwood, who has lung cancer, tells of how life is looking more hopeful since he started taking a new medicine on a clinical trial
Bowel cancer: Early checks can save lives
Early detection can boost your odds against bowel cancer but NZ's short supply of diagnostic firepower may be frustrating Kiwis' efforts to help themselves.
Cancer survivor thanks wife for pressure to go private
Ivan Burrowes has his wife Sue to thank for making him go private for a cancer check when his local public hospital said he would have to wait two years longer than usual.
Family keeps father battling
Adam Kelliher glances at the pictures of his children taped to his work computer screen as he describes how he has struggled against the tumours slowly growing within him.
Mary Bradley: The health crisis that receives too little attention
Four times as many New Zealanders are killed by bowel cancer every year - 1,200 - than die on our roads, writes Mary Bradley.
The Cost of a life: Adam’s story
Adam Kelliher tells of his struggle to survive bowel cancer
Evangelia Henderson: Kiwi women are missing out on cancer drugs
COMMENT: New Zealand spends less per capita on healthcare than Australia, and that's not good enough, writes Evangelia Henderson
'My story might not have ended happily'
Emma Crowley was in the shower, shaving her right armpit, when she made the alarming discovery that may have saved her life.
Cancer: Are poor being sent home to die?
The number of Kiwis with cancer is rising - as is the number of desperate patients who have resorted to asking strangers to help pay for expensive treatments.
Breast cancer risks high for NZ women
New Zealand's breast cancer death rate dropped by 20 per cent in the decade after the start of the national breast screening programme.
'I don't want to die unnecessarily early'
Tracey Eising fears the latest surge of her breast cancer will overcome her, unless a sea of cash can be found to pay for a new medicine.
Death toll could be 700 lower – cancer chief
Hear John Loof, of the Cancer Society, explain that 700 fewer people would die of cancer each year in New Zealand if our cancer death rate was the same as Australia’s.
The Cost of a Life: Tracey’s journey
We sit down with Tracey Eising who tells of the breast cancer that has been with her for nine years and how without state funding she can’t afford the one remaining medicines that could help her once her current drugs fail.
The Cost of a Life: Tom's story
Tom McGrath talks about being diagnosed with prostate cancer.