Home > Medical > Cancer > News News All sections in Cancer » About Cancer » Campaigning for Cancer » Cancer and your Diet » Cancer in Children » Cancer Treatment » Facts and Figures » Leaukemia » Living with Cancer » Multimedia » Cancer News » Real-life Story » Triggers and Prevention » What to read Blood tests to detect sexually transmitted cancers Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease, according to a World Health Organisation-led team. Aggressive liver cancer gene identified Researchers have found a gene they say can help identify patients facing aggressive liver cancer. Survivors of childhood cancer prone to adult illness Patients who successfully battled cancer during childhood face an extraordinarily high rate of chronic illness during their grown-up years. Quiz Cancer: are you at risk? » Ask CyberDoc » Quiz Am I eating to optimise my health? » Subscribe Newsletters » Breast self-examination FW de Klerk speaks about cancer Cutting unnecessary CT scans in kids could lower future cancer risk Reducing the number of unnecessary and high-dose CT scans given to children could cut their lifetime risk of associated cancers by as much as 62%. New cancer treatments add pressure to control costs Doctors at this week's annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology heard groundbreaking data on a new class of immune system boosters that some believe will become the main treatment for more than half of all cancers in the next 10 years. The Pill tied to lower ovarian cancer risk Women who use birth control pills are less likely to develop ovarian cancer later in life, a new analysis of past studies suggests. New drug extends advanced lung cancer survival A new drug can help advanced lung cancer patients live longer and may aid in treating other kinds of cancer, researchers said. Women can be screened years later than men with 'virtual colonoscopy' A new study has found that women can be screened for colorectal cancer at least five to 10 years later than men when undergoing an initial "virtual colonoscopy". Neanderthals got cancer too Many believe cancer is a modern-day disease, but a recent discovery sheds light on history of tumours in humans. New cancer treatments add pressure to costs Experts estimate that immunotherapies may to cost around US$110 000 for a year's worth of treatment, generating sales of $35 billion a year in the next 10 years. load more articles advertisement From our sponsors Don’t be taken by surprise this winter, keep your defences up with Vital Hop, skip and jump through winter with Hill’s Pet Nutrition Age-related bone loss is higher in women Conduct your most important Medihelp business from your mobile phone
Blood tests to detect sexually transmitted cancers Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease, according to a World Health Organisation-led team.
Aggressive liver cancer gene identified Researchers have found a gene they say can help identify patients facing aggressive liver cancer.
Survivors of childhood cancer prone to adult illness Patients who successfully battled cancer during childhood face an extraordinarily high rate of chronic illness during their grown-up years.
Cutting unnecessary CT scans in kids could lower future cancer risk Reducing the number of unnecessary and high-dose CT scans given to children could cut their lifetime risk of associated cancers by as much as 62%.
New cancer treatments add pressure to control costs Doctors at this week's annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology heard groundbreaking data on a new class of immune system boosters that some believe will become the main treatment for more than half of all cancers in the next 10 years.
The Pill tied to lower ovarian cancer risk Women who use birth control pills are less likely to develop ovarian cancer later in life, a new analysis of past studies suggests.
New drug extends advanced lung cancer survival A new drug can help advanced lung cancer patients live longer and may aid in treating other kinds of cancer, researchers said.
Women can be screened years later than men with 'virtual colonoscopy' A new study has found that women can be screened for colorectal cancer at least five to 10 years later than men when undergoing an initial "virtual colonoscopy".
Neanderthals got cancer too Many believe cancer is a modern-day disease, but a recent discovery sheds light on history of tumours in humans.
New cancer treatments add pressure to costs Experts estimate that immunotherapies may to cost around US$110 000 for a year's worth of treatment, generating sales of $35 billion a year in the next 10 years.