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One in 30 will experience it, but few people want to talk about bowel incontinence

For young Australians, living with bowel incontinence can come with shame and isolation. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

  • Lauren Ironmonger

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These four lifestyle changes may help you live longer after a cancer diagnosis

Making crucial adjustments to everyday behaviours after a cancer diagnosis could be as beneficial for people as some treatments.

  • Mikkael Sekeres
Cheryl Priest was diagnosed with pancreatic and lung cancer in 2021. She wonders if she would have been diagnosed earlier if she hadn’t skipped routine blood checks.

During COVID, Cheryl skipped tests. Then a ‘fake tan’ comment forced her to the GP

Oncologists are warning of waves of recurrent cancers due to later-stage diagnoses following the pandemic.

  • Henrietta Cook and Melissa Cunningham
“You could feel sorry for yourself and sit at home and not engage in your life,” says Scolyer in 2023. “But that doesn’t feel right to me. It’s not what I want to do. I want to keep contributing.”

I’d be delighted to be remembered as a proud everyday Aussie who ‘gave it a crack’

It was Richard Scolyer’s final wish that his passing be announced in his own words. This is his “final goodbye”, an open letter to all Australians that he penned before his final stages of illness. He died of brain cancer on Sunday.

  • Richard Scolyer
Simon Castles never celebrated exercise, until he was in hospital thinking I might never be able to again.

I never celebrated exercise, until I was in hospital thinking I might never be able to again

In April last year I did the bowel cancer screening test sent out in the mail. To my shock – I had no symptoms – it came back positive. I was 54. This wasn’t part of the plan.

  • Simon Castles
Kylie Minogue: “I’ve had lots of relationships, some were love, some were not.”

Kylie is notoriously private. After an hour and 15 minutes, I ask the burning question

“I’m definitely getting pickier,” she says. So, what’s off the table, from a relationships point of view?

  • Vassi Chamberlain
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Chanelle and Joe share a life, marriage, art. Now they face an incurable cancer diagnosis

Artists Chanelle Collier and Joe Wilson met in 2006 and joined their art practice in 2018. Early in 2023, Chanelle was diagnosed with a rare cancer.

  • Amanda Hooton
Dragi Grozdanovski received treatment for oesophageal cancer at the old Footscray hospital last February and is now in remission.

New hospital in the west opened three months ago but already faces cuts

Patients, surgeons and Western Health are concerned about a plan to strip cancer surgeries from the new Footscray Hospital.

  • Henrietta Cook
Brendan and Melissa Coburn

My beloved husband has died. I’ll never hear him say ‘hello beautiful’ again

I lost the love of my life after a heroic battle with cancer. What happens now?

  • Melissa Coburn
Mike and Ros Cohen.

The innovative program that helped this couple beat cancer

“Prehabilitation” rebuilds strength in cancer patients before they face surgery, to help speed up their recovery.

  • Rachel Rasker