- 05 Apr 2013 00:00 - Mara Kardas-Nelson
- After a seven-year battle, India's government has successfully defended its right to reject drug patents if a medicine doesn't deserve one.
- 05 Dec 2012 17:52 - Sapa-AFP
- Dogs are surprisingly adept at sniffing out lung cancer, results from a pilot project in Austria have suggested.
- 05 Dec 2012 15:35 - Sapa
- The cancer register has not been updated for eight years, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
- 16 Nov 2012 10:34 - Letters
- You do us a disservice with stories such as Daryl Ilbury's Light at night sets off alarm bells, says Professor Philip Lloyd.
- 02 Nov 2012 15:11 - Sarah Boseley
- The prohibitive cost of cancer medicines and their lack of efficacy means early intervention is more important than ever.
- 02 Jun 2012 07:52 - Deena Beasley
- Study shows that adding Avastin to standard chemo doubled the time a certain group of ovarian cancer patients lived without the disease getting worse.
- 12 May 2012 07:42 - Christopher Toothaker
- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba, saying his latest round of radiation therapy was successful.
- 01 May 2012 11:40 - Kate Kelland
- Most of Africa's languages don't have a word for cancer. How can a continent hope to treat, let alone fight, a disease that has no name?
- 02 Mar 2012 17:19 - Mia Malan
- Simple precautions can reduce carcinogens in the kitchen and on the food table, writes Mia Malan.
- 17 Feb 2012 14:15 - Thomas J Sheeran
- The parents of an eight-year-old who died from cancer after suffering for months with swollen glands have been sentenced to eight years in prison.
- 15 Feb 2012 12:09 - Staff Reporter
- Recently diagnosed with cancer, cricketer Yuvraj Singh gets support from famous cancer survivor, cyclist Lance Armstrong.
- 25 Jan 2012 09:18 - Staff Reporter
- Hubbly bubbly water pipes pose a serious cancer risk, a researcher says, with children as young as eight at risk of the dangers of the pipes.
- 23 Dec 2011 00:00 - Sarah Boseley
- Nuns should be given the contraceptive pill to reduce the high death rates from breast, ovarian and uterine cancer a result of their childlessness.
- 23 Dec 2011 00:00 - Sarah Boseley
- Around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we have the power to change.
- 08 Dec 2011 11:49 - Staff Reporter
- The Catholic Church should pay for nuns to go on contraceptive pills to cut the cancer risk that comes with a life of celibacy, cancer experts say.
- 21 Jul 2011 07:28 - Staff Reporter
- Taller people are more likely to develop some of the commonest and deadliest cancers, a study of links between height and the disease has concluded.
- 10 Jul 2011 17:32 - Staff Reporter
- Swaziland's government stopped paying for Robert Ngongoni Sukati's cancer treatments, so he had to turn to a dubious "immune booster".
- 06 May 2011 12:33 - Paul Davies
- Rogue cells could be the foot soldiers of atavisms as old as the hills, writes Paul Davies.
- 26 Apr 2011 06:11 - Paul Davies
- As cancer progresses in the body, so more and more of the ancestral core within the genetic toolkit is activated.
- 01 Apr 2011 16:51 - Ian Sample
- Scientists have grown sperm in the laboratory in a landmark study that could help preserve cancer patients' fertility.
