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  • New Zealand doing okay in cancer survival: Results from the largest ever cross-national comparison of cancer survival

    … Cancer survival estimates for 67 countries have recently been published for 10 cancer sites, in an exhaustive and thorough combined analysis … address potential criticisms of such a large international cancer survival comparison study by using the same data …
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  • A single shot to prevent cancer? HPV vaccine can!

    … its excellent safety profile and evidence that it prevents cancer. Added to the NZ immunisation schedule in 2008, … obstacle needs to be removed. A single dose to prevent cancer helps promote HPV vaccine. We should aim for at least … can achieve at least 90% coverage and eliminate cervical cancer and other cancers caused by HPV vaccine-types. The …
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  • Introducing an Online Data Explorer Tool: 30 years of NZ mortality and cancer data

    … There are striking inequalities in cancer incidence and mortality in NZ, by both ethnicity and … Zealanders (1). Also four times as many Māori women die of lung cancer than their European/Pakeha counterparts (2). The … for many important public health studies: for example, lung cancer incidence rates are used to model the …
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  • Red meat & processed meat: Summarising the Public Health isues

    … triggered by the recent highly publicised review on the cancer risk from processed meat and red meat. Here we briefly … health and the environment, and risk communication.   The cancer agency of the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has recently evaluated the carcinogenicity of …
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  • We need to talk about breast cancer screening (part 2)

    … Shaw and Associate Professor Diana Sarfati on breast cancer screening. In Part 1 t hey looked at the contested research around breast cancer screening. In today’s Part 2 they explore the … further and argue that the cost-effectiveness of breast cancer screening should be re-evaluated, for optimistic and …
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  • Care coordination for cancer cost-effective

    … Professor Tony Blakely Dedicated cancer care coordinators – a clinical nurse specialist … appears to be cost effective, at least for stage III colon cancer . The Government’s 2012 Budget included $33 million for “better and faster” services for cancer patients, of which $16 million dollars was for care …
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  • Media release: Urgent action needed: Aotearoa must accelerate efforts to eliminate cervical cancer

    … action to set us on the path to eliminating cervical cancer and help create a future where almost no one in … Briefing from the Public Health Communication Centre , Cancer Society of New Zealand  Medical Director Dr Kate … Australia and need a fully funded, equitable cervical cancer elimination strategy to get on track and save lives.  …
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  • Public health response to report on potential risk of nitrate from drinking water

    … nitrate in drinking water as a risk factor for colorectal cancer. In separate public statements, the authors concluded … in drinking water or the diet present an increased risk of cancer.” In this blog, we explain why the evidence in this … in drinking water or the diet present an increased risk of cancer” [2]. “exposures are well within acceptable daily …
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  • Strong public support for healthy food policies in Aotearoa

    … food contributes significantly to diseases like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes, affecting a growing … research from Te Rōpū Rangahau ō Te Kāhui Matepukupuku (Cancer Society Research Collaboration) reveals that 84% of … major cause of ill-health and deaths from diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and diabetes in Aotearoa New Zealand. …
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  • Carcinogen exposure in Aotearoa workplaces is unacceptably high

    … first time the extent to which New Zealanders experience cancer-causing substances and other exposures in their … to account for 750-900 deaths each year in New Zealand and cancer contributes to ~50% of these deaths as well as to at … straightforward but the investigation of work-related cancer is fraught with difficulty. There is often a long …
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