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Job linked to breast cancer risk - study
Women with farming and industry jobs have an increased chance of developing breast cancer, a new study has shown.
Friends come first for women
Survey finds 22 per cent of women feel they have stronger relationship with girlfriends than their partners.
QC faces cancer head on
Peter Williams is one of this country's toughest defence lawyers. But today he prefers to be known as an author, poet, sailor and prison reformer.
Cancer teen's fatal fishing trip
Terminally ill Troylane Tetai didn't have much time left, and he wanted to use the little he had to fish. But his life came to an end sooner than anyone was expecting.
Overdue lesson in perspective
A searingly honest account of his life by an NZ-based advertising boss who died of cancer recently is going viral on the internet.
Donna Wyatt: Breast cancer doesn't need pink hue
Concerns have been raised about "pinkwashing" and the commodification of breast cancer in the United States, writes Donna Wyatt.
Man's pregnancy test reveals cancer
A positive pregnancy test - taken by a man as a gag - led him to find out he had testicular cancer.
Cancer gets family to walk in the wild
When four-year-old Cormac was diagnosed with leukaemia in April the Peppers found themselves in a world of regular hospital visits and now, a lot of bush-walking.
Disparity in hospital waiting lists
The number of patients waiting for skin cancer surgery at Dunedin Hospital increased 64 per cent in the past year, while Southland Hospital halved its waiting list.
Cancer linked to fertility problems
Results of a large study unveiled in Auckland show a link between women with fertility problems and an increased risk of cancer in their children.
Crowe opens up on cancer fight
New Zealand cricket great Martin Crowe says his fight against cancer is "a comeback worth doing".
Cancer blow for top NZ cricket star
Former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe was diagnosed with lymphoma at the end of last week.