The family of Elaine Iketau are appealing for help from the public.

EDITORIAL: Study raises questions whether national bowel screening programme is adequate.

Compounds responsible for the fruit's red colour may protect against UV rays.

Breast implants are "toast", says plastic surgeon, as demand for alternative grows.

Teen cancer survivor talks about life, his plans for the future and charities he supports.

Developing cancer is now as common as graduating from university, a study shows.

Half his face was ravaged by cancer. But a genius surgeon rebuilt it, Terminator-style.

Activist's bucket list focused on her campaigns in health care, not tourism and adventure

COMMENT: At 24, after two surgeries and two rounds of chemo, doctors sent me home to die.

EDITORIAL: Given another year to live, TV's John Cocks is talking bravely about it.

TV star reveals how a terminal diagnosis has taught him to make the most of the time.

Nina Riggs has terminal cancer and is on a mission to find the perfect sofa.

COMMENT: Good, well-funded, universally accessible palliative care is the answer.

Ella Cocks has opened up about her dad's, TV builder John 'Cocksy' Cocks, cancer battle.

A former Kawerau boy who met a Chiefs rugby player a month ago has died of cancer.

Behind this 18-year-old's glittering appearance is a tragic story.

Ron Pattenden has an estimated 100 donors to thank for keeping him alive.

Esther Pekepo wouldn't be alive today were it not for the generosity of strangers.

COMMENT: The long, fraught process to deciding on a right to die has only just begun.

Family rally around Avie, 10, in cancer battle, shaving hair for Child Cancer Foundation.

Elyse Johnson's parents are trying to keep their precious daughter alive.

Kiwis are sacrificing one thing they can live without for Bowel Cancer Awareness Month

Tauranga mum recalls the moment 9yo daughter diagnosed with cancer spoke those words.

Auckland mum lost her husband and now faces a battle to save her daughter.

Steven Davey is saddened children smoke despite their parents dying of related diseases.

A link discovered between young women with breast cancer and their DNA.

Has cancer finally met its match? Jamie Morton goes inside the immunotherapy revolution.

Cancer widow and victim takes "washerwoman" claim against James Hardie.

A range of previous studies have suggested that tumours actually thrive off sugar.

A hopeful mum-to-be reveals how her decision to have a baby could end her life.