It is with great pleasure that Cancercare announces the anticipated opening of the West Coast Cancercare unit in August 2022. The unit will be led by Dr Jorn Malan, currently one of the Cancercare oncologists in Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha). The medical consultation...

Dr. Elré van Heerden has joined the Outeniqua Cancercare Unit from April 2022. She qualified as a clinical radiation oncologist at the University of the Free State and practiced at the then GVI Oncology Unit in George from July 2000. She resigned from the practice in...

In November 2019, Beverley Ann Dolley visited her physician with a sharp, persistent pain in her right breast and rib cage area – one she’d tried to write off as a ballroom dancing pulled muscle or work-related stress. Within 24 hours, she’d undergone a battery of...

The Cancercare group is proud to welcome Dr Johann Riedemann, who recently joined and is based at the Cape Gate unit. He completed his medical degree at the University of Stellenbosch (US) and his internship and community service at Karl Bremer and Western Cape...

Cape Town, 4 February - Cancercare opened the doors to it’s first treatment centre in 1986, under the name GVI Oncology. Since then it has grown substantially and is positioned as the leading provider of holistic oncology and cancer care treatment in South Africa. ...

Dr Johann Raats joined the Rondebosch Cancercare team as Clinical and Radiation Oncologist at the beginning of May this year.

Dr Raats has more than 29 years of experience in oncology, and his areas of specialisation are breast, gastrointestinal, gynaecological, …

One woman’s story is set to change the lives of other mothers facing the trauma of a cancer diagnosis

An Bakkes was only 34 years old when she was first diagnosed with Level 4 metastatic cancer. She was also pregnant …

A startling percentage of people who don’t smoke are diagnosed with lung cancer every year, and these are some of the reasons why, says Dr Charleen Muller [photo], clinical and radiation oncologist at Cancercare’s East London Oncology Centre.

The …