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Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells.

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

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.

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.

Brain cancer symptoms and treatment depend on which part of the brain is affected.

Multiple myeloma is cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow.

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

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.