The silence around vulval cancer means people are missing the signs that they have it
Sophie Rees, University of Bristol Most people have heard of cervical, ovarian, and perhaps womb…
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Breast cancer: new study reveals real risk of the disease if you have genetic mutation
Aisling Hegarty, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and Leonie Young, RCSI University of…
Obesity is a dangerous disease that shares key features with cancer
Besma Boubertakh, Université Laval and Cristoforo Silvestri, Université Laval Although obesity has been recognized as…
Vitamin D: improves survival of cancers of the digestive tract in p53-immunoreactive subgroup
For more than 100 years, it has been believed that sunlight and vitamin D deficiency…
Skin cancer screening guidelines can seem confusing – three skin cancer researchers explain when to consider getting checked
Enrique Torchia, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus; Neil Box, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical…
Living well with advanced cancer
By Jennifer Philip, University of Melbourne While many of us may benefit from the extraordinary…
AI can help detect breast cancer. But we don’t yet know if it can improve survival rates
Christobel Saunders, The University of Melbourne Around one in seven Australian women will be diagnosed…
Immune cells that fight cancer become exhausted within hours of first encountering tumours – new research
Mary Philip, Vanderbilt University and Michael Rudloff, Vanderbilt University A key function of our immune…
Cancer experts call for cancer care to be centred on patients rather than the commercial bottom-line
Commercial, rather than patient interests, often drive cancer care and research and patients deserve better,…
Does artificial sweetener aspartame really cause cancer? What the WHO listing means for your diet soft drink habit
Evangeline Mantzioris, University of South Australia The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), which…