With World Lung Cancer day having been commemorated earlier this month, Sunday 1 August, the Department of Health and the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) have called on South Africans to increase their awareness of this dread disease.
Chest and cancer doctors are calling for lung cancer screening in older people with a history of smoking a pack or more a day. But at the same time they also highlight the potential harms of screening, including a high risk of false-positive tests.
The dangers of smoking are well-known. Even cigarette boxes state publicly that smoking causes cancer, yet millions of South Africans continue to smoke. A former smoker talks about how smoking caused him cancer of the larynx.
Women with HIV are six times more likely to develop cervical cancer than those who are HIV-negative.
Staff shortages in hospitals are delaying the treatment of women in the early stages of cervical cancer in KwaZulu-Natal, endangering their lives.
A mother determined to support her child as he battles cancer has moved into hospital. September is Childhood Cancer Awareness month, spotlighting the plight of children suffering from cancer and how their caregivers cope.
Local experts are cautiously optimistic about last year’s cervical cancer vaccine roll-out after Australian authorities announced that vaccine is already showing positive results seven years after it was introduced in the country.
While Mokgadi Magdeline Morekhure of Alexandra managed to survive breast cancer, she has been left battling with a heavy swollen arm as a result of the lymphedema she contracted because of the illness.
For Thabelo Mbedzi, her mother was the only person she could depend on. After recently losing her to breast cancer, she is learning how to cope with her absence.
This Limpopo cancer nurse got the Covid-19 vaccine this week. She believes the vaccine will not only protect her, but the children diagnosed with cancer who she takes care of.
Don't smoke, eat healthy food, and do regular exercise ' most people know that these lifestyle choices lower your risk for cancer. But many people still don't make these choices.
Saturday, 4 February, marks World Cancer Day and with a theme of 'Together it is possible', highlights the importance of individuals, organisations and government to work together to alleviate the burden of cancer.
A quarter of the world’s adults are doing too little exercise, putting them at risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, and some cancers – and there has been no improvement over the past 15 years.
For some rural patients, hundreds of kilometres and long nights spent sleeping in the cold can stand between them and care for complicated illnesses like cancer and drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). One Northern Cape hospital is making the journey a little easier.
Klerksdorp’s Dianne Perhouse was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012. Two operations and eight months of chemotherapy later, she is a cancer survivor.
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