Cancer news
Your guide to the cancer science that makes the news
-
Wide range of cancers now linked to being overweight
Wednesday March 1 2017
-
Exercise 'most proven method' to prevent return of breast cancer
Wednesday February 22 2017
-
GPs 'failing to prescribe tamoxifen to prevent breast cancer'
Tuesday February 14 2017
-
Diabetes could be a warning sign of pancreatic cancer
Tuesday January 31 2017
-
Breath test shows potential for detecting cancer
Monday January 30 2017
-
Anxiety and depression linked to increased cancer death risk
Thursday January 26 2017
-
New drug treatment for pancreatic cancer 'extends survival'
Wednesday January 25 2017
-
New insights into why breast cancer drugs fail for some women
Tuesday January 24 2017
-
Warning over 'burnt toast chemical' acrylamide's cancer risk
Monday January 23 2017
-
MRI scans could spare 25% of men from prostate biopsies
Friday January 20 2017
-
New laser therapy for low-risk prostate cancer shows promise
Tuesday December 20 2016
-
Handful of nuts 'cuts heart disease and cancer' risk
Monday December 5 2016
-
Common food additives 'linked' to bowel cancer
Tuesday November 8 2016
-
Smoking causes hundreds of genetic mutations
Monday November 7 2016
-
'No link' between night shifts and breast cancer risk
Friday October 7 2016
-
Cervical screening every 10 years for healthy women is 'safe'
Thursday October 6 2016
-
Women dying needlessly due to not attending cervical screening
Friday September 16 2016
-
Invasive early prostate cancer treatments not always needed
Thursday September 15 2016
-
Radiotherapy 'provides no benefit for secondary brain tumours'
Monday September 5 2016
-
Excess body fat now linked to 13 different types of cancer
Thursday August 25 2016
-
Combined HRT breast cancer risk 'may have been underestimated'
Tuesday August 23 2016
-
Gene scanning 'could improve screening for oesophageal cancer'
Monday August 22 2016
-
Women's cancer risk may increase the longer they're obese
Wednesday August 17 2016
-
Vaginal douching 'linked to increased ovarian cancer risk'
Thursday August 4 2016
-
Alcohol 'a direct cause of seven types of cancer'
Friday July 22 2016
