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Business leader Roger Kerr dies
Roger Kerr, who headed the NZ Business Roundtable for 25 years, has died peacefully at home after a year-long battle with metastatic melanoma.
Roger Kerr: A life in pictures
Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr died after a year-long battle with skin cancer on October 28, 2011. We look back on his 66 years.
Toddler's illness baffles doctors
Jesse Bessant's parents hold on to the hope that his brain problems may be caused by an infection.
Bachelors face higher cancer risk
Bachelors are twice as likely to die of cancer compared with married men, a study has found.
Tauranga man's laughter in the face of death
A Tauranga man will end his life with a huge party where everyone will get the chance to insult, embarrass and humiliate him.
Motorsport: Richards pulls out of V8 enduro rounds
Kiwi V8 Supercars driver Jason Richard has been forced to pull out of this season's enduro rounds as he battles cancer.
Singapore patent for Dunedin co's cancer test
Dunedin-based company Pacific Edge says it has been awarded a patent in Singapore for its colorectal cancer prognostic technology.
Ban sunbeds - cancer victim's heartfelt plea
A woman who blames her skin cancer on being burned by a sunbed wants the Government to regulate the beauty therapy.
Gene discovery to identify women with cancer risk
Study finds fault in a gene that normally helps the body repair its DNA increases a woman's risk of ovarian cancer six-fold.