Our obsession with the superficial aspects of life can mean a death sentence for some of us.
Markets, attitudes and the war on drugs are the barriers that prevent patients having access to opioid-based pain medication.
Hollywood actress, Angelina Jolie, removes ovaries and fallopian tubes to avoid the risk of ovarian cancer.
Two emerging technologies look promising, but top oncology researchers are concerned about dangers seen during clinical trials.
The unknown, as much as the known, constructs how we understand and live it.
Researchers from Stanford University in the United States have developed a protein that inhibits the spread of cancer.
Respiratory illnesses are taking their toll on South Durban residents, but petrochemical firms deny culpability and won’t cough up for health costs.
A new assessment of the evidence suggests putting on weight increases one’s risk of the disease.
Crime write Henning Mankell has revealed that he has cancer in an advanced stage. He intends to write a newspaper column about fighting it.
Will local facial hair campaigners be able to raise more than last year’s R7-million for men’s health issues?
From a small, slinky satellite, the Cradle’s fossil riches and charting how Mars has changed, we bring the latest science news.
SureTouch does not claim to be a substitute for proper breast cancer screening, but patients are being misled.
Senegalese patients with advanced cancer have been suffering with severe pain due to morphine shortages. Human Rights Watch investigates why.
A generic version of a key cancer drug is now available in South Africa, but at a significantly higher cost than it is available internationally.
Government has raised concerns that the health system may buckle under the pressure of both HIV and non-communicable diseases – a dual epidemic.
A preventative mastectomy might save your life if you are at high risk but it does not provide 100% protection from developing breast cancer.
The state has pulled its funding of studies on the disease, retarding progress on a cure.
A drug already approved for treating kidney cancer was successful at delaying the return of advanced ovarian cancer, a clinical study has found.
After a seven-year battle, India’s government has successfully defended its right to reject drug patents if a medicine doesn’t deserve one.
Dogs are surprisingly adept at sniffing out lung cancer, results from a pilot project in Austria have suggested.
The cancer register has not been updated for eight years, according to Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi.
You do us a disservice with stories such as Daryl Ilbury’s Light at night sets off alarm bells, says Professor Philip Lloyd.
The prohibitive cost of cancer medicines and their lack of efficacy means early intervention is more important than ever.
Study shows that adding Avastin to standard chemo doubled the time a certain group of ovarian cancer patients lived without the disease getting worse.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home after 11 days of cancer treatment in Cuba, saying his latest round of radiation therapy was successful.
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?
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/ 17 February 2012
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.
Recently diagnosed with cancer, cricketer Yuvraj Singh gets support from famous cancer survivor, cyclist Lance Armstrong.
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/ 25 January 2012
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.
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/ 23 December 2011
Nuns should be given the contraceptive pill to reduce the high death rates from breast, ovarian and uterine cancer a result of their childlessness.
Around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we have the power to change.
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/ 8 December 2011
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.