The Latest Breaking News on Cancer

Bowel cancer breakthrough as scientists find chemotherapy response could be predicted by existing NHS test

Researchers hope KRAS test can serve renewed function as soon as possible

The Independent UK · Mar 2, 2023

‘Men love my bald head’: OnlyFans model diagnosed with rare cancer still makes £66,000 a year

Mya Richardson’s persistent symptoms were consistently put down to ‘unbalanced hips’

The Independent UK · Mar 1, 2023

DOJ sues La. chemical maker over risk to minority community

Federal officials are suing a Louisiana chemical maker, alleging that it presented an unacceptable cancer risk to the nearby majority-Black community and demanding cuts in toxic emissions

The Independent UK · Feb 28, 2023

'Emotional' Linda Nolan shares results of health treatment and says she's 'astonished'

Singer and TV star Linda Nola told fans she's been trying out a new treatment for lymphedema, which causes swelling due to a build-up of lymph fluid in the body

Daily Mirror · Feb 15, 2023

Mother diagnosed with cancer after breast milk dries out

Darina was given the all-clear in December 2019, but two years later her cancer returned

The Independent UK · Feb 14, 2023

After 30 years of research, pill developed at Duke for breast cancer approved for use

After six years of painful injections, Stephanie Walker has had enough.

Tribune News Service · Feb 8, 2023

Contaminated pathology sample led to misdiagnosis and removing part of man's lung, inquest hears

A medical specialist tells a coronial inquest he would have recommended regular observation instead of wrongly diagnosing lung cancer and recommending surgery for a patient who later died — if a pathology sample had not been contaminated.

ABC News · Feb 8, 2023

Biden will vow to help defeat cancer at State of the Union afterJill Biden’s own health scare

Mr Biden will announce the new initiatives as part of his ‘Unity Agenda’ in tonight’s State of the Union speech

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2023

Inquest begins into death of RAH patient who had part of lung unnecessarily removed

A coronial inquest has begun into the death of a Royal Adelaide Hospital patient who died months after he was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and underwent surgery to remove part of his lung.

ABC News · Feb 7, 2023

Wrong cancer diagnosis led to man's lung surgery

An inquest has been told that a 67-year-old man who later died of respiratory failure had undergone major lung surgery after an incorrect cancer diagnosis.

AAP · Feb 7, 2023