The main female sex hormone produced mostly by the ovaries. Oestrogen regulates the menstrual cycle and prepares the breasts for milk production.

Help you overcome physical problems or barriers using equipment or activities.

The process of eating and digesting the necessary food the body needs.

See 'lymph nodes'.

A method of diagnostic imaging that uses very small amounts of radioactive material. The patient is injected with a liquid that contains the radioactive substance, which collects in the part of the body to be imaged. Sophisticated instruments detect the radioactive substance in the body and process that information into an image.

Feeling sick or wanting to be sick.

A team approach to cancer treatment and planning.

The name for a cancer that spreads to another part of the body.

Often includes things like health, wellbeing, ceremony, how we conduct family business, taking care of sacred sites and continuing culture through language, song, dance, art and storytelling. Men have distinct roles and responsibilities, performing specific tasks that benefit the whole community. You can request cultural protocol to be followed where gender-specific cancer is present or symptoms resulting from a cancer diagnosis are impacting your reproductive organs.

A cancer of the body’s cells that contain pigment (melanin), mainly affecting the skin.