Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall at the Covid-19 media update.
Photo: RNZ / Sam Rillstone
The government will also introduce a new breast cancer screening system will proactively identify and enrol eligible women , with plans to reach 271,000 more people.
The new system will be running in the next two years.
About 160 New Zealand women develop cervical cancer every year and about 50 die from it.
Associate Health Minister (Women s Health) Dr Ayesha Verrall said this was a tragedy as almost all cases are preventable or can be treated if they re found at an early stage .
Dr Verrall said there would be up to $53 million allocated in this year s budget to complete the design of and implementation of a new test for humanpapillomavirus (HPV), the cause of 99 percent of cervical cancers.
Winders is now cancer-free and says she has a great perspective on life. She has been there for important moments, including being there to cuddle and kiss her first moko (grandchild) three months ago.
Robyn Edie/Stuff “It’s great to survive it.” After her diagnosis, Winders went through three surgeries, a double mastectomy, reconstruction and a couple of bouts of radiotherapy. The Boobie Brunch is being held at ILT Stadium Southland on Sunday to help raise money for the Breast Cancer Foundation. Stadium Southland event manager Alex Morrison-Bailey also had a brush with the disease when her mother Sue was diagnosed in February 2020.
UpdatedFri, May 7, 2021 at 8:41 am PT
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A University of Canterbury (UC) student has come up with
a new computerised method of reading mammograms that could
help radiologists detect warning signs of breast
cancer.
Haipeng
Li is about to complete a PhD in Software Engineering at
UC after spending the last three years working on
computational algorithms that can automatically read and
analyse mammogram x-rays.
The algorithms he has
developed, with UC
Professor Ramakrishnan Mukundan and radiologist Dr
Shelley Boyd at Pacific Radiology in Christchurch as his
supervisors, have been shown to accurately detect two
markers linked to increased risk of breast cancer.
He
Press Release – University of Canterbury A University of Canterbury (UC) student has come up with a new computerised method of reading mammograms that could help radiologists detect warning signs of breast cancer. Haipeng Li is about to complete a PhD in Software Engineering at UC after …
A University of Canterbury (UC) student has come up with a new computerised method of reading mammograms that could help radiologists detect warning signs of breast cancer.
Haipeng Li is about to complete a PhD in Software Engineering at UC after spending the last three years working on computational algorithms that can automatically read and analyse mammogram x-rays.