Cancer information from diagnosis to treatment and after cancer care.
How to support someone with cancer from diagnosis to treatment and after cancer care.
Up to 50% of cancers can be prevented. Find out how.
Call 13 11 20 to speak with an experienced cancer nurse for information and support.
Accurate, evidence-based answers to your cancer questions.
Our free cancer counselling service offers you an opportunity to discuss your cancer experience and its impact on your life.
Subsidised accommodation for country people in Adelaide for cancer treatment.
Cancer Council can help you find relevant community and government resources that may be able to assist you financially.
Cancer Council SA runs two eduction programs to help you cope with the difficulties that arise from a cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Support for health professionals treating people with cancer.
Talk to the experienced and professionally trained Quitline counsellors to get support while you work through your quitting journey.
Buy the latest SunSmart products to protect your family from harmful UV.
Apply for SunSmart Early Childhood status and ensure your centre has the right balance between sun protection and sun exposure for vitamin D production.
Apply for SunSmart school status and ensure your school has the right balance between sun protection and sun exposure for vitamin D production.
Overexposure to UV radiation during childhood and adolescence is known to be a major risk factor in the development of skin cancer.
Protect your employees from over exposure to UV and meet your occupational health and safety requirements.
Bowel cancer is 90 per cent curable if found at an early stage. You can buy an FOBT kit by calling 13 11 20.
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What are the symptoms and causes of bowel cancer?
Information about the tests used to diagnose bowel cancer.
Measuring the size of the cancer and how far it has spread.
Some questions you may want to ask about your disease.
Information to help you understand and make treatment decisions.
Continuing or returning to work after a cancer diagnosis.
Types of surgery used to treat bowel cancer.
Treatment for bowel cancer using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
What is chemotherapy, how does it work and will I have any side effects?
Treatment for bowel cancer using drugs that are toxic to fast growing cells.
Ideas to manage the side effects of bowel cancer treatment.
What are clinical trials, why are they necessary and how are they done.
How to deal with the effects of some cancer treatments on the skin.
A good diet can help you better cope with your treatment.
Ideas to help relieve the tension of a cancer diagnosis and its treatment.
Hair loss can be a side effect of many cancer treatments.
How to deal with the effects of some cancer treatments, on the mouth.
Massage focuses on the positive effects of human touch
Call 13 11 20 to speak with an experienced cancer nurse.
An opportunity to discuss your cancer experience and its impact on your life.
Comprehensive information for rural South Australians affected by cancer.
Improving well-being during and after cancer treatment.
Services to help you deal with many of the challenges of a cancer diagnosis.
Resources to help with legal and financial issues arising from cancer.
Coping with appearance-related side effects of cancer treatment.
Connecting to people who've had a similar experience.
What are the symptoms and causes of breast cancer?
Information about the tests used to diagnose breast cancer.
Women and men can both get breast cancer although it is rare in men.
When you visit your doctor you may have questions or concerns.
Types of surgery used to treat breast cancer.
Treatment for breast cancer using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
Treatment for breast cancer using drugs that are toxic to fast growing cells.
Treatment for breast cancer by blocking the action of oestrogen.
The surgical rebuilding of a breast at the time of, or after a mastectomy.
What are the symptoms and causes of cervical cancer?
Information about the tests used to diagnose cervical cancer.
Measuring the size of the cancer and how far its spread
Information to help you understand your treatment decisions.
Types of surgery used to treat cervical cancer.
Treatment for cervical cancer using high energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
Treatment for cervical cancer using drugs that are toxic to fast growing cells.
Treatment for cervical cancer affects the reproductive organs and can affect...
What are the symptoms and causes of lung cancer?
Information about the tests used to diagnose lung cancer.
Types of surgery used to treat lung cancer.
Treatment for lung cancer using using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
Treatment for lung cancer using drugs that are toxic to fast growing cells.
Treatment will depend on whether the cancer is small cell or non-small cell...
Some types of chemotherapy called targeted therapies may be available.
What are the symptoms and causes of melanoma?
Information about the tests used to diagnose melanoma.
Types of surgery used to treat melanoma.
Protecting your skin and the risk of further melanomas.
What are the symptoms and causes of pancreatic cancer?
Information about the tests used to diagnose cancer.
Most people with pancreatic cancer do not have a family history of the disease.
Measuring the size of cancer and how far it has spread.
Types of surgery used to treat pancreatic cancer.
Treatment for pancreatic cancer using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
Treatment for pancreatic cancer using drugs that are toxic to fast growing...
Ideas to manage the side effects of pancreatic cancer treatment.
There is also a therapy specifically for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours.
What are the symptoms and causes of prostate cancer?
Information about the tests used to diagnose prostate cancer.
Types of surgery used to treat prostate cancer.
Treatment for prostate cancer using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
Ideas to manage the side effects of prostate cancer treatment.
Active surveillance means closely monitoring the cancer with regular checkups
Treatment for prostate cancer by blocking the action of testosterone.
Information on emerging treatments for prostate cancer.
What are the symptoms and causes of skin cancer?
Information about the tests used to diagnose skin cancer.
Types of surgery used to treat skin cancer.
Treatment for skin cancer using using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
Information about other treatments for skin cancer.
Cancer is a disease of the cells, the body's basic building blocks.
Treatment for cancer that removes tissue from the body.
Treatment for cancer using high-energy x-rays to kill cancer cells.
Information about continuing or returning to work after a cancer diagnosis.
A DVD that provides information about issues people face following a diagnosis.
When cancer has been diagnosed in a relative or friend.
Most skin cancers are caused by overexposure to ultraviolet radiation.
Skin should be protected when the UV radiation level is three and above.
Protect your skin in five ways – Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek and Slide.
Sensible sun protection does not put people at risk of vitamin D deficiency.
Finding skin cancer early gives you the best chance of successful treatment.
Find out what are the top 10 myths about sun protection.
Getting the balance right: vitamin D and sun protection
In most cases the earlier a cancer is diagnosed the better the outcome.
Bowel cancer is 90 per cent curable if found at an early stage.
Finding and treating breast cancer early may improve the outcome.
Early changes to the cells can be detected before cancer of the cervix develops.
Get the facts. Dispelling the myths, rumours and fanciful claims about cancer.
