The Latest Breaking News on Cancer

Hope for cancer patients after discovery of 'chameleon' gene that helps cells beat treatment

Experts say some forms of childhood leukaemia can change into a different type of cancer which makes it harder to treat

Wales Online · Nov 1, 2022

Substance found in pomegranates can help fight cancer, say scientists

Urolithin A rejuvenates immune cells, which are then better at fighting tumours

Wales Online · Oct 31, 2022

Consumer Health: Treating liver cancer

More than 41,000 new cases of primary liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, and more than 30,000 people will die of these diseases, according to the American Cancer Society.

Tribune News Service · Oct 31, 2022

Consumer Health: What is a mammogram, and why are they important?

Breast cancer accounts for 1 in 3 of all new cancers diagnosed in women in the U.S. each year, according to the American Cancer Society. It's estimated that more than 43,00 women in the U.S. will die from breast cancer this year.

Tribune News Service · Oct 24, 2022

Modern radiation therapy and treatment of cancer

There were about 200,000 new cases of cancer in Thailand in 2020. Recent advances in the fields of surgical oncology, medical oncology, and radiation oncology have immensely improved the results of cancer treatment. Even with the best multidisciplinary treatment, in more than half of the patients, cancer will recur and…

Bangkok Post · Oct 22, 2022

Study: Patients In Low-Income Nations Receive Cancer Diagnosis Later

According to a study, the time it takes a cancer patient to visit a doctor, acquire a diagnosis, and begin treatment varies substantially depending on the patient's location and the kind of cancer, with people living in lower-income nations taking up to four times longer initiate care. Read more on…

Dynamite News · Oct 21, 2022

Womb cancer risk could 'more than double' from hair straightening chemicals

Hair straighteners have previously been found to have hormone disrupting chemicals.

Daily Record · Oct 18, 2022

Regular use of hair straightening products could raise uterine cancer risk, study finds

There are around 9,700 new cases of uterine cancer each year in the UK

The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2022

Women who straighten hair at higher risk of rare cancer, study shows

Womb cancer affects one in 36 women in the UK

Wales Online · Oct 18, 2022

Hair straightening chemicals 'could significantly increase' risk of cancer, study says

Hair straightening chemicals could more than double the risk of developing a deadly cancer in women, a new study says, with scientists now hoping to find what may lay behind the connection

Daily Mirror · Oct 18, 2022