Strong emotional burden for terminal adolescent cancer clinicians

Clinicians struggle to not get personally involved when caring for adolescents and young adults with incurable cancer, an Australian study shows. While survival rates for adolescent cancers in Australia now approach 90%, oncologists and other clinical staff still face major emotional...

Clinicians struggle to not get personally involved when caring for adolescents and young adults with incurable cancer, an Australian study...

Public Health

Patients hit by gap fees due to being “locked in” to private system

Private surgeons' fees and radiotherapy are the main culprits in excessive out-of-pocket costs for cancer patients who are unneccesarily 'locked in' to the private system, Chief Medical Officer Professor Brendan Murphy has told a Senate Estimates hearing. In most cases out...

Private surgeons' fees and radiotherapy are the main culprits in excessive out-of-pocket costs for cancer patients who are unneccesarily 'locked...

Blood

Coroner delivers 6 recommendations on chemotherapy underdosing

A coronial enquiry into chemotherapy underdosing in South Australian patients with acute myeloid leukaemia has recommended a complete overhaul of how haematological malignancies are managed in the state's hospitals. The SA deputy coroner investigated the deaths of four of 10 AML...

A coronial enquiry into chemotherapy underdosing in South Australian patients with acute myeloid leukaemia has recommended a complete overhaul of...

Medicolegal

Specialist fee transparency website delayed until 2020

The federal government's initiative to force specialists’ to reveal their fees on a publicly-searchable website is unlikely to become a reality until 2020, a Senate committee has been told . The idea of fee transparency website to allow patients to avoid...

The federal government's initiative to force specialists’ to reveal their fees on a publicly-searchable website is unlikely to become a...