Our Chair, leading Christchurch colorectal surgeon Professor Frank Frizelle, outlines our rationale for a Comprehensive Cancer Centre in this Opinion piece published in The Press.

The Christchurch Cancer Foundation is lobbying the Government for New Zealand’s first Comprehensive Cancer Centre, which would attract the best clinicians and free up space in public hospitals.

New Zealand is at a crossroads as the government grapples with the prospect of cancer outcomes falling further behind Australia and other comparable countries, or, investing in world class cancer-treatment infrastructure.

Professor Frank Frizelle explains that the key to effective cancer treatment and research is translating laboratory science into the clinical setting; from bench to bedside.

Read this investigation into the outcome discrepancies that exist between different types of hospitals treating cancer patients.

Sir Murray Brennan et al discuss the interrelationship of institutional size and volume with improved patient outcomes in this Journal of Surgical Oncology article.