Oncology

Rates of cervical cancer in American women may be higher than previously thought according to a new study published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society. 

Eczema caused by defects in the skin could reduce the risk of developing skin cancer, according to new research by King's College London.

This month is Bowel Cancer Awareness month and will see cancer charities focusing on raising awareness of the key signs and symptoms of bowel cancer. Bowel cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in the UK, and nearly 16,000…

Fifty per cent of people diagnosed with cancer today will survive their disease for at least 10 years, according to landmark figures published by Cancer Research UK recently.

In this guest blog, Trish Bartley, an expert in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for cancer (MBCT-Ca) calls for the psychological needs of cancer patients to be more fully addressed.

The biggest driver of rising costs in our healthcare system is medical progress with new drugs, tests, devices and new ways of using them. Progress is welcome yet some of us will still die this year despite the best medical advances.

Dame Cicely Saunders developed the concept of the modern palliative care movement in the hospice setting as she was concerned about the quality of care given to the dying in hospitals.

A leading cancer support charity is warning of a considerable rise in loneliness felt by sufferers of the disease.

A recent paper indicates that the gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist degarelix  may halve the relative risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and death in men with pre-existing CV disease (CVD). 

One in 3 women diagnosed with breast cancer in England each year are aged 70 or over.

A pioneering scanning technique that can image a patient's entire body can reveal where cancer is affecting the bones.

Regular alcohol drinking could increase your risk of developing melanoma, the most dangerous form of skin cancer, by up to 55 per cent, according to new research.

The number of people being diagnosed with cancer in the UK each year has hit more than 330,000 for the first time, according to the latest figures published recently by Cancer Research UK.

Lung cancer is the UK's biggest cancer killer. It kills almost 35,000 people each year€”that is 96 people every day or one person every 15 minutes.

Prostate cancer was the most common cancer in men in 2011 and represented 25.6% of male cancer diagnoses.