New research by Kiwi scientists has revealed how chemotherapy stimulates the release of tiny bubbles from the surface of cancer cells that cause potentially fatal blood clots.

Pregnant with cancer, Elle Halliwell was told she had to make an impossible decision. This is more than a sad story. It's a love story.

They were just 26, a high-flying couple used to the idea that medicine can deliver a cure for most illnesses, but now they've been confronted with a profound dilemma.

Some will wait to 2020 to join scheme

The Labour Party is urging a rethink of one of the Government's key health targets after a group of surgeons revealed important operations were being put off in order to reach the strict target.

Two Australian women have been left devastated after being wrongly misdiagnosed with cancer.

Good night my beautiful angel, says heartbroken father whose photograph of his dying 4-year-old daughter went viral.

Scientists even believe their refusal to seek medical advice could be partly behind why women tend to live longer than them.

Restaurant critic AA Gill has revealed he has been diagnosed with the 'full English' of cancers.

Marton woman Marie Stantiall was surprised to learn that the skin discolouration on her leg was a melamoma in need of urgent attention. Mrs

The grieving father of a terminally-ill teenage girl who was cryogenically frozen following a landmark legal case spoke of his ordeal for the first time last night.

MP Louisa Wall championed the right of everyone to marry. She has now tabled a Bill that sets out a process for terminally ill person to legally end life.

In a heartbreaking letter to the court, girl wrote: "I don't want to die but I know I am going to...I want to live longer...I want to have this chance."

Martin Johnston looks at the journey of paediatric healthcare in New Zealand, bravely going where no children's hospital had before.

Every time Deanna Trevarthen sees a Worksafe television advertisemen she shuts her eyes until her partner changes the channel.

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A successful campaign for the release of terminally ill fraudster Vicki Letele illustrates one of society's most difficult decisions, writes David Fisher.

COMMENT: Vicki Letele is dying. She will not see her three young children grow up. That has to be a far worse punishment any court could give her.

Pike River widow Anna Osborne will continue to self-medicate with marijuana after being told chemotherapy has failed to rid her of cancer.

The proper response when someone is terminally ill is to offer support and comfort.

Adam Kelliher leaves behind his wife and two daughters

District health boards report bad stuff that happens to patients

Family of jailed woman dying of cancer are praying for good news today.

Doctors say 2-year-old Chelsey Cheng has only a 20% chance of reaching her 5th birthday.

A former soldier who defrauded people out of thousands of pounds by pretending to be a decorated war veteran with cancer has been jailed for 16 months.

Andrew Friend's last name was also one of the best descriptors of the popular Kiwi ex-airforce pilot.

A Whanganui cancer patient has had to make five return trips to Palmerston North in a month for treatment that he said was previously

The family of Vicki Letele has been pleading for the fraudster to be let out of jail early so she can be with her family.

A Kiwi mum-of-two who noticed an annoying spot on her chest in her wedding photos later realised it was skin cancer.

A 'lovely' father of two died in his fiancee's arms on a flight back to Britain just 24 hours after the pair got engaged at the Grand Canyon during a 'holiday of a lifetime'.