This year’s Blue September campaign revolves around community fundraising events called Blue Do’s with TV personality Jason Gunn fronting our ads. The idea behind a Blue Do is that it’s a fundraising social event for prostate cancer. It can be an office morning tea or after work drinks. It could be a bake sale or a fishing trip….
The world is green with envy when it looks at our health system, Health Minister Jonathan Coleman has told a room full of bemused cancer charity bosses. “If you stand back and go to the World Health Organisation, where I was two months ago, you will realise we have got a health system that’s the envy…
In the lead up to this year’s election, a conglomerate of cancer non-governmental organisations are asking all political parties to commit to cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, research and survivorship as key components of health policies. CANGO (Cancer Non-Governmental Organisations) was formed in 2007 and is an alliance of prominent New Zealand cancer charities including: Breast…
When Christchurch man Clynton Inns was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in February 2016, simply getting through the treatment regime was his main priority. Thirty-seven radiation treatments administered within a short two month period left him with a range of unpleasant side effects, including greatly reduced energy levels. It was not until Clynton, 73, discovered…
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