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.
Around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we have the power to change.
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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.
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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.
Swaziland’s government stopped paying for Robert Ngongoni Sukati’s cancer treatments, so he had to turn to a dubious "immune booster".
Rogue cells could be the foot soldiers of atavisms as old as the hills, writes <b>Paul Davies</b>.
As cancer progresses in the body, so more and more of the ancestral core within the genetic toolkit is activated.
Scientists have grown sperm in the laboratory in a landmark study that could help preserve cancer patients’ fertility.
Former England captain Bryan Robson has undergone surgery for throat cancer, Manchester United said on Wednesday.
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/ 21 February 2011
Scientists said there is evidence linking oral sex to cancer, and urged more study of how papillomaviruses may be to blame for a rise in oral cancer.
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/ 21 January 2011
Hundreds of bloggers write about their illness or trauma every day. <b>Sue Eckstein<b> explains why.
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/ 19 November 2010
Scientists have turned clumps of human skin into blood cells in a feat that could revolutionise cancer therapy and the treatment of blood disorders.
Chris Derby-Lewis’s lawyer issued a statement on Thursday saying that the convicted murderer’s cancer has spread.
Breast cancer is a tragedy, if not one that always has an unhappy ending.
Despite advances in treatment, cancer is poised to become the leading cause of death as people refuse to ditch bad habits and the population ages.
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/ 15 September 2009
Patrick Swayze, whose turn as a dance instructor in Dirty Dancing made him one of the iconic film stars of the 1980s, died on Monday.
Tanning beds now rank alongside cigarettes and asbestos as a top-level cancer threat, the World Health Organisation’s cancer research agency said.
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/ 10 September 2008
The increasing onslaught of cancer in Africa has been largely overlooked and ignored.
Broccoli and other vegetables such as cauliflower and cabbage contain a group of phytochemicals that seem to have cancer-preventing properties.
Yoga evangelist has millions in his thrall, but critics claim devotees are being duped, writes Randeep Ramesh in Haridwar.
Environmental factors may contribute to about 90% of all cancers. Belinda Beresford reports.
World Health report says non-communicable diseases are the ‘leading threats to human health’. Belinda Beresford reports.
Cuba has approved what is believed to be the world’s first registered lung cancer vaccine and is offering it to Cuban and foreign patients.
Australia’s cricketers and cancer campaigners paid tribute on Monday to Jane McGrath, the wife of Glenn McGrath, who lost her fight with the disease.
The people of Hou Wang Ge Zhung believe that their small community, an hour’s drive from Beijing, has joined the ranks of China’s ”cancer villages”.