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Devoted carpet merchant loses cancer fight

<i>Michele Hewitson Interview:</i> Richard O'Brien

<i>Kieran Nash:</i> Build-up is over for cracker fight

Anti-smoke move lauded

Five rules to avoiding bowel cancer

A major study has pointed to five "common sense" rules said to reduce the incidence of bowel cancer, along with a range of other life-threatening illnesses.

Fighting that small core of fear

Paula Green tells Linda Herrick about a cancer diagnosis which led to a renaissance of writing.

<i>My job</i>: Understand the skin you're in

Cancer patients to get faster treatment

Buy the hammer, get a house for it

Time to check out your breasts

Helena McAlpine is no different from thousands of Kiwi women in most ways ... but this time last year, she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Outdoors comes inside for patients

Cancer survivor Lucy Bennett raised $10,000 for picture panels in Auckland Hospital's radiation department, making treatment a little more bearable.

Michael Douglas health fears

Rugby loses future champion

Ezra Sitagata, 7, could 'pass and tackle like a pro' but he had to tell his team he had cancer.

<i>Paul Thomas</i>: Atheists are best informed about religion

Dying mother's photographs for her children stolen

Mother's last day - son charged

A man who wrote a book about the death of his cancer-stricken mother has been charged with her attempted murder.