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Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells.

Bone cancer can develop as either a primary cancer, meaning that the cancer started in the bones, or a secondary cancer, meaning that the cancer started somewhere else and spread to the bones.

Most children and many adults with acute leukaemia can expect to be cured, while chronic leukaemia can be successfully managed.

Uterine cancer is one of the most common gynaecological cancers.

Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that can develop decades after exposure to asbestos.

Smoking increases the risk of mouth cancer six-fold.

Bowel cancer is highly curable if found at an early stage.

Bladder cancer affects around 3 times as many men as women.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in Australia (apart from non-melanoma skin cancer) and the second most common cancer to cause death in women.

Early diagnosis and treatment can cure almost all cases of testicular cancer.