The Sistas Shawl Project responded to the cultural barriers of feeling embarrassed or shame during breast screening, by providing women with an incentive gift of a beautiful cultural shawl to...
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The skin cancer prevention and early detection project has three key elements to drive change.
Element 1 – Social marketing. Taking a state-wide approach and using paid and unpaid...
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Adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) for breast cancer significantly reduces local recurrence and improves long term survival, however can be associated with an increased risk of cardiac mortality with...
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Research publications have reported increased digestive tract cancers in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The adult CF centre at The Prince Charles Hospital (TPCH) identified unexpected early...
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Gold Coast Health has one colposcopy nurse, but with the increase in referrals to the colposcopy clinic we needed to increase our nurse colposcopy capacity. There are no training programs in...
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BioJet fuses magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and real-time ultrasound (US) during biopsy of the prostate for the diagnosis of prostate cancer. BioJet allows information from MRI to direct biopsy...
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Promoting cancer screening in community pharmacies is feasible, provided barriers such as funding, privacy and follow-up are addressed. Pharmacies are accessible and pharmacists have trusting...
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BreastScreen Queensland Brisbane Southside Service is implementing targeted strategies to address declining participation in the Program, particularly among new women (who have never screened...
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