More than a quarter of all deaths among Māori are attributable to cancer, research published in the New Zealand Medical Journal shows.
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Fears Māori with breast cancer are missing out on reconstructive surgery
Middlemore Hospital reconstruction surgeon Dr Michelle Locke and consultant Dr Jenny Wagner are working on ways to support Māori and Pasifika women.
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Moving their butts for bowel cancer
Keld Hunia and his whānau are doing their bit to raise funds for Bowel Cancer NZ with their "Move Your Butt" campaign coming up in June.
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PHARMAC makes $70,000 a year cancer drug $5
PHARMAC has reached a provisional agreement to fund the Breast cancer treatment drug Ibrance. The investment will mean the drug, currently priced by PHARMAC at around $70,000 a year, will now be available for cancer sufferers at the normal prescription rate, of around $5.
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Whānau's spirits lifted by kindness of community
Just before Christmas, the Blakelock family was hit with the hard news that their oldest daughter had a rare form of cancer. To help ease the financial burden on the whānau, the community has come together to help support them.
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Cancer advocate wants triple funding for Pharmac
Malcolm Mulholland has upped the ante on the Government today leading a march of Kiwis calling for the Government to put in place policy settings to double and even triple Pharmacs budget to keep more New Zealanders alive.
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Māori missing out on life-prolonging lung cancer medicine
Hundreds of Māori living with lung cancer are being urged by health experts to contact their doctors to be tested for a rare form of the disease.
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Pharmac to fund more leukaemia medication
From the first of December the Government will fund Venetoclax (Venclexta), medication which will give relief to people living with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. Star Olsen of Ngāti Porou considers himself one of the lucky ones he was diagnosed with Myeloma, cancer of the plasma cells and is currently receiving treatment once a week.
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A holistic approach to supporting Māori with cancer
When Rangi Mahuika was diagnosed with breast cancer three years ago she felt alone and that support for her through her time of need wasn't forthcoming. A friend suggested the Te Mauri cancer support group based at Lower Hutt's urban Kōkiri Marae. The group focuses on a holistic Māori model of care for cancer sufferers.
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Kiwi Ferns captain Hireme brings wedding forward for her dying mother
Blackfern's and Woman's Rugby League legend dubbed the Sonny Bill of the female codes, is now Honey Hireme-Smiler after wedding her partner in front of her cancer stricken mother.
