The Mail Online today states: "Lung cancer death rates among European women set to overtake breast cancer for first time this year," adding that "researchers blame high levels of smoking, especially in Britain..."
A gene defect increases the risk of a type of bone marrow cancer by 30%, the Daily Mail reported. The news is based on an examination of people with multiple myeloma, a relatively rare type of cancer that starts...
Widespread media coverage has been given to a large study on cancer survival across Europe. The EUROCARE-4 study looked at cancer cure and survival rates between
The gene known as Tip60 has been linked to breast cancer, reported BBC News on 29 August 2007. Tip60 was shown not to work as well in breast cancer tissue as in
Air pollution, chiefly from traffic exhaust fumes in cities, is having a serious and sometimes fatal effect on health, The Guardian reports. This follows the publication of two studies in The Lancet…
A new initiative to develop ‘personalised cancer treatment’ has today been launched. The experimental project has been designed to develop a screening program to test tumours for key genetic changes...
Hypnotising breast cancer patients before they have surgery reduces the pain, nausea and fatigue they experience during and after surgery, according to reports in
"Men who cycle more than nine hours a week are … more likely to develop prostate cancer," the Mail Online inaccurately reports. The story comes from the publication of an online survey into cycling in the UK and its effects on health outcomes…
"Chocolate, fizzy drinks and other sugar-laden foods could soon be used to detect cancer," the Mail Online reports. This news is certainly a good way to increase the reader appeal of a very technical study that…