Tag: cancer
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UK expert urges caution as new cancer test technologies emerge
Professor Bob Steele from the University of Dundee presents at the Cancer Screening Symposium Public Health Association of Australia A leading UK cancer screening expert has urged Australian public health experts to exercise caution and “temper enthusiasm” in the face of rapidly emerging cancer test technologies. Prof Bob Steele,…
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An early career researcher’s perspective of the 9th Australian Lung Cancer Conference
Nathan Harrison, PHAA member Following significant progress on lung cancer control in Australia, 2022 Konrad Jamrozik Student Scholarship recipient Nathan Harrison attended and presented at a national conference on the topic. He shares his insights with Intouch readers. I was fortunate to be the 2022 recipient of the PHAA South…
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‘I take it with a pinch of salt’: why women question health warnings linking alcohol with breast cancer
Belinda Lunnay, Torrens University Australia; Paul Ward, Torrens University Australia, and Samantha Meyer, University of Waterloo Up to one in ten cases of breast cancer in Australia is linked to drinking alcohol. Midlife women are already at increased risk for breast cancer because of their age, and tend to drink…
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Why cancer economics research matters
A/Prof Louisa Gordon (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute), Dr Daniel Lindsay (QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute), Dr Nikki McCaffrey (Deakin University), Dr Alison Pearce (The Daffodil Centre Sydney University), and Dr Katharina Merollini (University of Sunshine Coast) Each year 150,000 Australians are told they have cancer, leaving them fearful and…
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Making every global crisis a marketing opportunity: alcohol industry corporate activism
Abbie-Clare Vidler and Keira Bury The alcohol industry were among many organisations participating in World Environment Day, held by the United Nations Environment Programme on 5 June. The theme of the celebrations was ‘Only One Earth’, a call back to the theme’s use at the world’s first environment conference 50…
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Study tracks sun protection behavioural changes as world meets for COP26 climate summit
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA For the first time in nearly two years the world’s attention is about to switch from the battle against COVID-19 to the fight to control global warming. World leaders will gather in Glasgow in the next week for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also…
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This ain’t no ‘puff piece’: John Safran takes aim at Philip Morris and doesn’t miss
Jeremy Lasek – PHAA John Safran has made a career out of probing society’s fringes for satire. Now the perpetual provocateur takes on the biggest cigarette company on the planet. Three years ago, tobacco giant Philip Morris shocked the world when it announced it was moving away from cigarettes and…