Cancer

The Cancer Control Agency is ignoring data showing the effectiveness of several blood cancer drugs, which are free to Australian patients, a leading specialist says.

It is understood the report will find 24 blood cancer medicines which treat 42 different cancer types are funded in Australia but not New Zealand.

Sosene, who won the Māngere electorate last year, will undergo surgery and then remain on leave for recovery, Labour said in a statement.

Te Whatu Ora will block 20 to 30 patients from receiving Keytryda until the drug is funded by Pharmac on October 1.

Heeni Hoterene says she didn't feel welcome during her stay at the Cancer Society's Domain Lodge.

Kya Hurihanganui Thornicroft was only 13 when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, an extremely rare condition for people her age.

The woman had multiple referrals and many investigations over post-menopausal bleeding, but no treatment plan was put in place, and surgery was not offered.

Whānau of a 12-year-old girl with osteosarcoma, a terminal bone cancer, has asked David Seymour to step in and allow her to receive an experimental drug being trialled overseas

When her international career started to really lift off in, Zeisha Fremaux, 36, was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.

Pio Terei and wife Deb are on the drive get more Māori and Pacific people to give blood and become part of New Zealand's donor registry