Media releases for 2010
26 Dec 2010
A new advertising campaign from the Cancer Institute NSW will encourage smokers to kick the habit for good this festive period...
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22 Dec 2010
There are very few places in the world where a person’s chances of beating cancer are as high as in NSW, according to a leading international study published today...
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21 Dec 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer) Frank Sartor today announced a $15 million funding boost for cancer research in NSW. The funding is being awarded to more than 50 cutting-edge projects across the State...
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15 Dec 2010
Professor David Currow, Chief Cancer Officer and CEO of the Cancer Institute NSW, today welcomed a new report from the NSW Bureau of Health Information (BHI) that shows the number of cancer deaths in NSW has dropped dramatically over the past decade...
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10 Dec 2010
Nominations are now open for the NSW Premier’s Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher in 2011...
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10 Dec 2010
Cancer Institute NSW funded researchers have been recognised as leaders in their fields with the announcement of the latest round of Fellowship grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)...
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30 Nov 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor, today launched the NSW Cancer Plan 2011–15, a landmark document that will set the platform for new programs and campaigns aimed at lessening the impact of cancer across the State over the next five years...
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30 Nov 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor today released the Strategic Directions for Tobacco Control in NSW 2011-2016 Discussion Paper for public comment...
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21 Nov 2010
Today marks the start of national skin cancer action week and the start of our new Dark Side of Tanning campaign. Weeks like national skin cancer action week encourage people to think about their sun behaviours; this campaign will do the same...
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16 Nov 2010
Today’s announcement of a breakthrough discovery with the potential to change the way ovarian cancer is treated is an outstanding outcome of the NSW Government’s substantial investment in cancer research...
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25 Oct 2010
Minister for Health, Carmel Tebbutt, and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor today marked Pink Ribbon Day by committing funds for community based initiatives to ensure information about breast cancer gets to women of non-English speaking backgrounds...
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07 Oct 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor today announced new data showed five-year survival rates of cancer in NSW were improving...
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01 Oct 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer) Frank Sartor today urged women to gather inspiration from breast cancer awareness month and have a mammogram. ..
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01 Oct 2010
This week’s announcement of a breakthrough discovery with the potential to change the way certain cancers are treated is an outstanding outcome of the NSW Government’s substantial investment in cancer research. ..
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23 Sep 2010
The NSW Government welcomes today’s research that clearly indicates the positive impact the Federal Government’s tax increase on cigarettes is having on the number of smokers making a quit attempt. ..
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22 Sep 2010
The number of mesothelioma cases in New South Wales is not set to peak for another 5 to 10 years with the annual number of cases increasing four-fold since 1980. ..
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03 Sep 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor today encouraged everyone to wear blue to support Blue September – a campaign to raise awareness that one in two NSW men will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime – and he encouraged men to seek advice from their GP. ..
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30 Jul 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor, today announced $7 million in funding through the Cancer Institute NSW for cancer research and services. ..
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26 May 2010
With significant tobacco control measures in place, latest figures show smoking is no longer the social norm in New South Wales...
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21 May 2010
Professor Robert Sutherland has been awarded the prestigious Premier's Award for Outstanding Cancer Researcher 2010. ..
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20 May 2010
More people with cancer in NSW are accessing the world’s latest treatments, with one in every 17 newly diagnosed cancers now treated in a clinical trial, compared to just one in 32 six years ago...
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12 May 2010
Cancer Institute NSW anti-smoking campaigns are working, with new figures showing the lowest ever recorded smoking rate for New South Wales. ..
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11 May 2010
Rates of smoking in NSW have reached an all-time low according to new figures released today by Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor...
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30 Apr 2010
Today, the Hon Julia Gillard MP, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations officially launched the new Australian Mesothelioma Registry which will be managed by a consortium led by the Cancer Institute New South Wales and including some of the leading experts in asbestos related disease in Australia...
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20 Apr 2010
The University of Sydney’s School of Public Health has appointed Dr Jane Young as its first Professor of Cancer Epidemiology, who will establish a cancer epidemiology and cancer services research program at the University. ..
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12 Mar 2010
The NSW Government has today released a report that highlights the need to develop methods for diagnosing pancreatic cancer and new therapies to substantially improve survival of patients...
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05 Mar 2010
The Cancer Institute’s graphic anti-tanning campaign There’s nothing healthy about a tan has won an international Sulzberger Institute sun safety award. ..
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24 Feb 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor, today marked Teal Ribbon Day by urging women to educate themselves about the symptoms of ovarian cancer which claims over 250 lives in NSW each year...
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18 Feb 2010
Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor, today welcomed a breakthrough into the human genome co-led by NSW researcher Dr Vanessa Hayes, following the most comprehensive genetic analysis ever done...
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17 Feb 2010
Premier Kristina Keneally and Minister Assisting the Minister for Health (Cancer), Frank Sartor today launched NSW’s five-year plan to reduce cancer rates and improve services to patients and their families by asking the community to get directly involved...
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04 Feb 2010
Premier Kristina Keneally officially marked World Cancer Day today by releasing an encouraging new study into teenage attitudes towards tanning and sun smart behaviour...
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26 Jan 2010
Assistant Health Minister (Cancer) Frank Sartor is urging sun seekers to cover-up this Australia Day, with too many people still risking cancer in pursuit of a tan. ..
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