One week before senior prizegiving, 18-year-old Jake Bailey was told he might not live to see the day.

Tom McGrath talks about being diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Addiction is a word we throw around too readily, sending us on the wrong track like the matters of comparing tobacco and bacon, Paul writes.

Is it time to switch bacon for tomatoes? Scientists have designed disease-fighting tomatoes packed with a 'miracle ingredient' found in red wine.

COMMENT: Yes, TV3 is free to move the current affairs show around the schedules, but 3D is made with taxpayer money, writes Duncan Greive.

Britons should try to avoid bacon, sausages and other cured meats altogether as they are as big a cancer threat as cigarettes, experts have warned.

When Kourtney Ryder experienced lower back pain during her pregnancy doctors put it down to the baby leaning on her spine.

A teen battling a rare form of leukaemia had her wish granted today - meeting her favourite football team.

Funnyman and stoner icon Tommy Chong is undergoing surgery to remove a tumour in his rectum in the hope it will end his painful battle with cancer.

System under fire as hundreds of cancer patients put on Job Seeker Hardship while they are getting treatment.

A NZ girl who travelled to the United Kingdom to undergo lifesaving surgery, only to be told she had cancer, has been given the all-clear.

A Tauranga man has dyed his beard an outrageous shade of pink in support of October's Pink Ribbon Street Appeal for breast cancer.

Since Kamya Ghose had a mastectomy she is designing mastectomy bras tailored for a younger customer after having problems herself underwear shopping.

Comedian Urzila Carlson was 20 when she was diagnosed with kidney cancer.

Many researchers now believe old-fashioned cheap drugs will provide the next big breakthrough in cancer treatment.

Bowel cancer patients with higher levels of vitamin C in their tumours have extended disease-free survival - is the same true for breast cancer?

Helena McAlpine died last week after a high-profile battle with breast cancer. Her final farewell began at the St James Theatre in Auckland yesterday.

Helena McAlpine's funeral will be held tomorrow at the St James Theatre on Lorne St in Auckland.

As he prepares to bury his soulmate, Chris Barton celebrates the legacy of his brave wife, Helena McAlpine.

Jackie Collins' daughter has been given the all-clear after also battling breast cancer.

32-year-old Auckland doctor Jared Noel had terminal cancer and had just one wish before he died - to meet his first child, his to-be-born daughter.

A 21-year-old has died of cervical cancer after symptoms were dismissed as growing pains by doctors.

Cancer is as much a part of my life as grocery shopping. I'm not cured but I'm not dying, writes Whitney Archer.

An Auckland teen living with the side-effects of a brain tumour has been chosen as the face of hope by a cancer charity.

Numerous studies now show the risk of many different cancers is undoubtedly influenced by diet.

The new test is twice as reliable as current blood tests and would allow patients to find out in minutes whether they had cancer based on the levels of EN2 in their urine.

In trials Keytruda was shown to be twice as effective as chemotherapy, halting and even shrinking tumour growth.

A young girl who is suffering from cancer was treated to a special birthday party at Auckland's Ronald McDonald House this morning.

Friends and workmates are rallying around a cop and young mum, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer after previously surviving melanoma.