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Victoria’s health minister defends colleague who suggested Kylie Hennessy, who has a brain tumour, ‘roll with the punches’

For over a century, scientists have painstakingly worked to find the ultimate causes of cancers, hoping this could point to a cure for the disease. Many disparate agents are known to be associated with cancers: cigarette smoke, soot, asbestos, radiation, alcohol, chemicals, and others. But exactly how they lead to…

While hysterectomy surgery has seen a drop in developed economies, it persists in the global South reflecting a racist, sexist, and prejudicial legacy.

Stem cells are the starting point for all other cells in our bodies. The first such cells to be found were blood stem cells – as the name suggests, they give rise to different types of blood cells.

This woman took matters into her own hands when told she would have to wait nine months for a scan on a lump in her breast

“It’s a simple step that could literally, and I mean literally, save your life,” Reynolds says

Olivia Hughes-Smith has been diagnosed with leukaemia after suffering a pain in her leg

While brain tumours are rare in Scotland, experts say that urgent action is needed.

Prostate cancer is identifiable as the most common form of cancer in men, with 11,500 deaths across the UK each year - here is how to spot symptoms of the disease.