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Two exceptional Peter Mac staff have been nationally recognised for their services to medicine and medical research. Peter Mac's Chief Medical Officer Dr David Speakman received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for... Read more

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Genitourinary include prostate, kidney, bladder, and testicular cancer. It also includes cancers of the penis. Your urinary system rids the body of waste fluid known as urine, urea, or wee or pee. This urinary system also makes... Read more

Head and neck cancers can develop in the mouth and lips, throat and voice box, nose, sinuses, thyroid and saliva glands. Most head and neck cancers start in the lining, called squamous epithelium. This lining covers the inside of... Read more

The lungs are like two sponges inside your chest, one on the left and one on the right. Lung cancers happen when cells in the lung tissue or lining experience abnormal growth. They then multiply and turn into a tumour. We call a... Read more

The reproductive system is where and how women create babies. Gynae cancers can happen in any area of the female sex or reproductive body parts. Major parts of the female sex and reproductive system include the cervix, vagina,... Read more