Cancer

As Chris Vines battles the side effects of surviving cancer three times, including losing vision in his left eye, the sketch artist is using his lifelong passion to bring joy to others.

Years of chemotherapy has damaged Chris's kidneys and impaired his vision, but creating art helps him cope.

Jacqui Cooper was left bedridden and distraught when she was diagnosed with a rare sarcoma.

Jacqui Cooper is grateful to be in remission from the rare cancer that stole her ability to walk or look after her son, but advocates for patients say sarcoma still does not receive enough research funding.

While cancer doesn't affect plants like it does us, it can have costly implications for farmers and other growers.

This fibreglass cow has done the rounds of WA over the past three years, but now Clarabelle is lending a hoof to farmers in a campaign against a ban on live sheep exports.

Families of loved ones requiring CAR T-cell therapy call on the South Australian government to follow other mainland states and set up a local clinic with severely ill patients having to travel interstate from where some do not return. 

The Commonwealth will fund interim arrangements to make a medication to treat neuroblastoma freely available in Australia.

Australian children with a rare form of cancer known as neuroblastoma will no longer need to spend $500,000 and travel to the US for treatment, as the federal government agrees to cover costs immediately while the drug gets local approvals.

Beloved actor Sam Neill says he's "so pleased to be alive and busy" after two and a half years in remission, with a new season of his hit series The Twelve coming soon.

The 26-year-old is riding 5,500 kilometres through outback Queensland and New South Wales to help fight the rare cancer that killed her mum, and to help her grieve the loss of both her parents.

A Canberra mum, who assumed her hip pain was a sports injury for two years before finding out it was a rare cancer, is sharing her story to try and help others avoid the same fate.

Many sarcoma patients like Canberran Kaela Graham-Bowman have similar diagnosis experiences, with the complex nature of the rare cancer making identification particularly challenging.

Busselton resident Howie George was relieved that the new hospital planned for his home town would include an oncology unit. He's been left crushed by the project's delay.

Sarah Frare had surgery and 28 rounds of chemotherapy before signing up for a trial that hopes to extend survival rates for the most common and almost always fatal form of brain cancer.

Parents are hoping the government could help with millions of dollars so they can travel to access the drug while Australia's regulators consider its use at home.

Media executive Judith Whelan has died aged 63 after being diagnosed with cancer. She is being remembered as a fierce role model and advocate for young reporters. 

Luke Walles says sometimes he feels better smoking a cigarette than vaping. For health experts, that's a problem.

Back in her salon 12 months after the melanoma was removed from her arm, Kira Eacott is having honest conversations about skin health with clients and family.

Trooping the Colour is usually all about the sovereign, but this time, King Charles III had to share the spotlight with his daughter-in-law Princess Catherine, who made her first public appearance in months.

In north-eastern New South Wales lies the small town of Baryulgil, where the remnants of an asbestos mine have drilled deep into the core of the community.

Princess Catherine, who has been receiving preventative chemotherapy for cancer, says she will "join a few public engagements over summer", including Trooping the Colour in London on Saturday.

More than 20 regional Victorian health services have been told their budgets will be slashed by up to 30 per cent in the coming financial year, the ABC understands.

Researchers have found elite swimmers are at increased risk of developing potentially deadly skin cancer.

A world-first Australian study finds personalised cancer treatments using genome sequencing are achieving remission in cases considered unlikely to be cured.