• Health & Medicine

Coffee, exercise and skin cancer

31 July 2007

• Health & Medicine

Screening matters this Breast Cancer Awareness Month

As Breast Cancer Awareness Month approaches, Cancer Research UK is launching a brand new campaign to raise awareness of the importance of cancer screening. As Breast Cancer Awareness Month approaches, Cancer Research UK is launching a brand new campaign to raise awareness of the importance of cancer screening.

31 July 2007

Stirling nurse researcher examines the needs of laryngeal cancer patients

A nurse researcher at the Cancer Care Research Centre, based at the University of Stirling is using a research fellowship of more than Ј90,000 from Cancer Research UK to provide support for people with head and neck cancers. A nurse researcher at the Cancer Care Research Centre, based at the University of Stirling is using a research fellowship of more than Ј90,000 from Cancer Research UK to provide support for people with head and neck cancers.

31 July 2007

• Health & Medicine

Booze boosts bowel cancer risk

Drinking a daily pint of beer or a large glass of wine increases your risk of bowel cancer by around 10 per cent - according to a new report by Cancer Research UK. Drinking a daily pint of beer or a large glass of wine increases your risk of bowel cancer by around 10 per cent - according to a new report by Cancer Research UK.

30 July 2007

• Health & Medicine

Rapid weight changes linked to cancer

24 July 2007

• Health & Medicine

Charity predicts 20,000 fewer deaths from bowel cancer

Cancer Research UK today predicts a huge drop in deaths from bowel cancer if people use the self testing kit that is being sent to men and women in their sixties throughout the country. Cancer Research UK today predicts a huge drop in deaths from bowel cancer if people use the self testing kit that is being sent to men and women in their sixties throughout the country.

24 July 2007

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Chemo instead of radiotherapy cuts long-term side effects for children with brain tumours

Using chemotherapy to delay or avoid radiotherapy in children under three with a type of brain tumour called ependymoma reduces the risk of potentially damaging long term side effects, reveal trial results published online in the Lancet Oncology. Using chemotherapy to delay or avoid radiotherapy in children under three with a type of brain tumour called ependymoma reduces the risk of potentially damaging long term side effects, reveal trial results published online in the Lancet Oncology.

21 July 2007

More fruit and veg confusion

18 July 2007

• Health & Medicine

Grapefruit! What’s the score?

17 July 2007

• Science & Technology

Interleukin 6 - no innocent bystander

17 July 2007

• Science & Technology

Bowel cancer cells FLIP out

16 July 2007

Complementary therapy on trial

16 July 2007