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Susie Wiles is credited with installing a level of relative stability to Trump’s team during his second stint in the White House.

Trump’s chief-of-staff Susie Wiles diagnosed with breast cancer

Susie Wiles, the first female White House chief-of-staff in US history, will continue to serve in the role “virtually full-time” while she undergoes treatment.

  • Michael Koziol

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Have more sex and replace your stove: The simple, everyday ways to reduce cancer risk, according to doctors

Eating fibre, replacing gas stoves and regular ejaculation are just some of the ways cancer experts are reducing their risk of developing the potentially deadly disease.

  • Henrietta Cook and Broede Carmody
Michaela Loukas from Marist Catholic College Penhurst, took home the title of Young Scientist of the Year for her project Assessing the Accuracy and Interpretability of a Recurrent Neural Network for Breast Cancer Classification and Molecular Subtyping using Ribonucleic Acid Sequencing Data.

Meet the HSC student who built an AI model to detect breast cancer

In the middle of her HSC, Michaela Loukas was able to identify malignant tissue with 98 per cent accuracy.

  • Emily Kowal

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With these women, the conversations go deep quickly – and I hear things I’d never heard anyone else talk about.

  • Lucy Ormonde
Daniella Pager is a health professional who has seen through her own cancer experience how patients with recurrence of the disease must fight for the best treatment.

After being diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, Daniella discovered something else unexpected

After 27 years of lobbying, Australians will know how many people are living with metastatic breast cancer and finally have a path to better treatment.

  • Wendy Tuohy
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Stephanie and Nathaniel and their daughters April,4,and Eliza 20 months at Booran Reserve in Glen Huntly.

Australian discovery sheds light on how pregnancy and breastfeeding protect against cancer

While it has been known for decades that women who have children and breastfeed are less likely to develop breast cancer, scientists believe they have now pinpointed exactly why.

  • Henrietta Cook
Louise Schirmer has the evidence of radiation treatment to her breasts removed for free.

Breast cancer leaves tattoo ‘battle scars’, but with a little help Louise is having hers removed

For many women, the marks left behind by breast cancer and its treatment are indelible.

  • Wendy Tuohy
Denise Scott: “I was amazed at how terrified I felt of death. But then I got to thinking really practically.”

Diagnosed with cancer and terrified of dying, Denise Scott asked her husband to do one thing

The comedian, actor and writer on her spiralling thought process after a cancer diagnosis, letting go of religion – and finding love in a clowning ensemble.

  • Benjamin Law
Collette Chase had no family history or any genetic factors that would predispose her to breast cancer.

Australian cancer breakthrough could end relapse for thousands, including Colette

Finding out how “seeds” of breast cancer hide themselves in bones and how to stop them “waking up” could offer hope of an end to breast cancer recurrence.

  • Wendy Tuohy