The Latest Breaking News from Cancer

Toxic air was once a silent killer. No longer. We have known for some time that long-term exposure to human-made pollution — from transport, industry and heating — is linked to strokes, heart disease and lung cancer. The annual mortality rate is roughly 30,000 a year.

Robots don't get cabin fever, develop cancer from cosmic radiation, miss their families, or go insane.

Former armed response police officer Jamie Buchanan, 45, began having back pain and severe night sweats before being admitted to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.

Ann Coates, 48, from Budleigh Salterton in Devon, saw her weight drop from 134kg to 102kg before she was taken to hospital with severe pain in her abdomen and discovered she had cancer

Dee Wright was 17 stone at her heaviest and doctors feared for her health after her nan died from cancer in 2005.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancers among middle aged and older men. Now, new research has found an added risk to those diagnosed, particularly in the first six months

Actor’s mother died of pancreatic cancer while he was filming ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ in 2019

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer two months ago. My oncologist recommended that I undergo genetic testing as part of the treatment plan. Why is this recommended since I already have cancer? What is the benefit of testing? And what information will it provide?

The American Cancer Society has hosted the Great American Smokeout on the third Thursday of November for more than 40 years. This year, it's on Thursday, Nov. 17, and you can join thousands of people across the country taking charge of their health that day by quitting smoking.