Brain Tumor News: Brain cancer drug approved for NZ

A cancer drug that could prolong the lives of people with aggressive brain tumours has been approved for use in New Zealand.
Wellington neurosurgeon Kelvin Woon applied to Medsafe to have Gliolan made available after noting its benefits for patients in the United Kingdom. The drug will be used for malignant brain tumours known as glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM, by causing them to light up and become fluorescent during surgery.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/72196153/brain-cancer-drug-approved-for-nz 

Cannabis Oil Cures 3 Year Old Boy Of Cancer After Doctors ...

A young boy named Landon Riddle was diagnosed with Leukemia, and was told by his doctors that he only had an 8-10% chance of living for more than a day or two.
“His whole chest was full of leukemia tumors, which is why he couldn’t breathe. They started him on chemo, but told us that he probably wasn’t going to make it,” his mother, Sierra Riddle said.
After two months of Chemotherapy, Landon became sick and would refuse to eat. According to his mother, he would vomit up to 50 times a day, and the doctors eventually lost hope, seeing no other solution than Chemotherapy.

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/10/oil-cures-3-year-old-boy-of-cancer-after-doctors-gave-him-48-hours-to-live/# 

Hereditary Diffuse Gastric Cancer:

The recent focus of the group has been to understand the molecular events that are occurring as HDGC stomach cancers develop and progress. By understanding these events we will be better placed to identify 

(i) the reasons and triggers that underlie the variable age of onset in HDGC families (ii) which drugs may be effective in treatment and (iii) possible drugs which can be used to prevent cancer development (chemoprevention).

http://www.nostomachforcancer.org/hereditary-diffuse-gastric-cancer-research-update-october-2008 

Get The Tools - The Nuts & Bolts of Men's Health

Welcome to the bloke’s place – where you can access the latest A-Z of NZ men's health information & tools.  We want kiwi blokes to live healthier lives & celebrate more birthdays with their family & friends, so welcome to GTT, "The nuts & bolts of mens health"

http://www.getthetools.org.nz/ 

Bladder Cancer

Bladder cancer is responsible for approximately 3% of all malignancies diagnosed in New Zealand each year. Bladder cancer is more common in men than women and typically affects people over 60 years of age. The main risk factor for this disease is cigarette smoking.
Nearly all are transitional cell cancers (arising from the inner lining cells of the bladder). Rarer bladder tumours include adenocarcinoma (usually arising from the urachus) and squamous cancer (associated with chronic inflammation and schistosomiasis).

http://www.aucklandurologist.co.nz/bladder-cancer.html 

Lung Cancer | Asthma Foundation New Zealand

Lung Cancer What is it? Our bodies are made up of tiny cells, which normally repair and reproduce themselves. Sometimes, however, they develop in an abnormal way forming lumps or tumours. Lung cancer is cancer of some of the cells in part of the lungs, usually beginning in the lining of the airway.

Primary lung cancer is cancer that originated or started in the lungs. Secondary lung cancer is cancer that has started somewhere else in the body (bowel or breast for instance) and spread to the lungs.

http://asthmafoundation.org.nz/your-health/other-respiratory-conditions/lung-cancer/ 

Twelve Key Points from the Alcohol & Cancer Conference

Hosted by Alcohol Action NZ and Cancer Society of NZ, Te Papa 17 June 2015

1. In 1988, the World Health Organisation’s International Agency for Cancer Research scheduled alcohol (ethyl alcohol, ethanol) as a Group 1 carcinogen – an agent for which there is sufficient evidence to assert it directly causes cancer.
2. The degree of public awareness about the link between alcohol and cancer in New Zealanders is not known. In Canada, public awareness of the link between alcohol and cancer has slowly increased from 21% in 1996 to 36% in 2012, and education level did not predict awareness of the link.

http://www.alcoholaction.co.nz/?p=433 

Sunbeds – Consumer NZ and Cancer Society call for ban

Consumer NZ and the Cancer Society are calling for an outright ban on commercial sunbeds. Although both organisations support amendments to the Health (Protection) Amendment Bill banning the provision of sunbed services to under-18s, they argue the ban does not go far enough.
Consumer has been surveying sunbed businesses for over a decade and found many operators ignoring – or unaware of – the safety guidelines of the voluntary standard (AS/NZ 2635:2008 Solaria for cosmetic purposes). This standard was revised in 2008 following concerns from health groups and the community about the increased risks to users of sun-tanning appliances. It:

http://www.standards.co.nz/touchstone/consumer-safety/2015/mar/sunbeds-consumer-nz-and-cancer-society-call-for-ban/ 

Chemical mix may trigger cancer

Common chemicals that people are routinely exposed to may be mixing together in the body to cause cancer, researchers say.  Chemicals deemed safe to humans may blend lethally together inside the human body to cause cancer, a high-profile scientific taskforce has ruled.
Researchers, including New Zealand scientist Dr Linda Gulliver, have released findings into possible links between common chemicals and the development of cancer. Their results, published in the journal Carcinogenesis, show mixtures of chemicals used in our environment may be acting in concert with each other inside the body to trigger the deadly disease.

http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=208719&fm=newsarticle+-+Politics%2Cnrhl 

Lung cancer

Lung cancer is a type of cancer that begins in the lungs. If left untreated, it can spread beyond the lungs into nearby tissue or other parts of the body. Smoking is the main cause of lung cancer. Smoking is the single main avoidable cause of lung cancer. It is not known why one smoker develops lung cancer and another does not. Up to 90% of lung cancer is caused by smoking.
Lung cancer occurs most often in adults between the ages of 40 and 70 who have smoked cigarettes for at least 20 years. They are also likely to have started smoking as teenagers. Second-hand smoking (passive smoking) may also cause lung cancer. However, as with many cancers, we do not know the cause in all cases.

http://www.healthnavigator.org.nz/health-a-z/l/lung-cancer/