Is breast cancer really on the rise?
Laura Barton: According to Cancer Research UK, the lifetime risk of a woman developing breast cancer, which causes more than 12,400 deaths annually, is now one in nine.
Vitamin D may help to curb breast cancer, say scientists
Vitamin D - manufactured by the skin in response to sunlight - may have a role to play in fighting breast cancer, scientists say today.
Radiotherapy before surgery ‘the best way to tackle bowel cancer’
· Technique boosts chances of survival dramatically
· Risk of recurrence can be cut to 1%, say specialists
A little good news for a change
In the latest of her regular dispatches about life with breast cancer, Dina Rabinovitch is told that her disease appears to be under control - for the moment at least.
Computers may speed breast cancer detection
· Screening more accurate than human experts · New method may relieve shortage of radiologists