• Health & Medicine

New horizons for lung cancer?

8 July 2011

• Health & Medicine
• Policy & Insight

Expert Opinion: Professor Jack Cuzick

1 July 2011

• Science & Technology
• Health & Medicine

ASCO 2011 – Jury still out on ovarian cancer screening

30 June 2011

• Health & Medicine

Older women sidestep embarassing cervical smear tests

Older women are too embarrassed to go for smear tests, and fear pain, while younger women are too busy, according to a Cancer Research UK study, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology today. Older women are too embarrassed to go for smear tests, and fear pain, while younger women are too busy, according to a Cancer Research UK study, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology today.

14 June 2011

• Health & Medicine

Durham University should return British American Tobacco's money

31 May 2011

• Health & Medicine

EU urged to adopt plain packaging on tobacco

On World No Tobacco Day today (Tuesday) Cancer Research UK has renewed its call for the European Union (EU) to adopt standardised, plain packaging with graphic pictures of health warnings on all tobacco products. On World No Tobacco Day today (Tuesday) Cancer Research UK has renewed its call for the European Union (EU) to adopt standardised, plain packaging with graphic pictures of health warnings on all tobacco products.

31 May 2011

• Health & Medicine

New screening test more effective in left-side of bowel

New bowel screening kits, expected soon for England and Scotland, are more sensitive at picking up pre-cancerous growths in the left-side of the bowel than the right-side because the growths are shaped differently. New bowel screening kits, expected soon for England and Scotland, are more sensitive at picking up pre-cancerous growths in the left-side of the bowel than the right-side because the growths are shaped differently.

25 May 2011

• Health & Medicine

Our new mobile app to help spot cancer early

19 May 2011

• Health & Medicine

New study doesn’t show that coffee prevents breast cancer

11 May 2011

• Health & Medicine

Gene testing could improve screening programme in future

Calculating individual genetic cancer risk and taking age into account could mean fewer women would need to be screened for breast cancer, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer. Calculating individual genetic cancer risk and taking age into account could mean fewer women would need to be screened for breast cancer, according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer.

11 May 2011

• Health & Medicine

Non-communicable diseases such as cancer 'are the leading global killer'

Non-communicable diseases  are the leading cause of death around the world, the World Health Organisation has said. Non-communicable diseases  are the leading cause of death around the world, the World Health Organisation has said.

28 April 2011

• Health & Medicine

Skin cancer, sunbeds, surgery and smoking in this month’s podcast

26 April 2011