health - "cancer"

People vulnerable to cancer may have subtle differences in cell chemicals that could be detected.

Arie Behar is tirelessly working to ensure his late wife's death from breast cancer is not in vain.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, June 10 (HealthDay News) -- Costs for treating Medicarepatients with cancer increased substantially from 1991 to 2002,researchers report.

A multicenter team of researchers has identified a panel of proteins linked to early development of pancreatic cancer in mice that applies also to early stages of the disease in humans - a breakthrough that brings scientists a significant step closer to developing a blood test to detect the disease early, when cure rates are highest.

Scientists at the Institute of Food Research have detected subtle changes that may make the bowel more vulnerable to the development of tumours.

Inpatients celebrate their lives, as they become prom royalty for a day.

Smoking cigarettes has the same effect as cutting the life span by close to five years, according to a mortality risk chart released Tuesday in the US Journal of the National cancer Institute.

A form of the contraceptive coil could help protect women at high risk of womb cancer, researchers believe.

After bone cancer forced the amputation of her right leg below the knee, Eileen Casey got even more bad news: Her insurer told her that she had spent her $10,000 lifetime coverage limit on her temporary limb and that the company wouldn't pay for a permanent one.

A high-tech X-ray called a spiral CT scan may help reduce lung cancer deaths in smokers and former smokers, but only reduces their overall risk of premature death by 4 percent, researchers reported on Tuesday.