TWO brothers were diagnosed with prostate cancer within months of each other after a joke on a lad’s holiday prompted them to take a test. Keith Powell, 68, and his brother Alan, 66, were

India should eliminate tax on drugs for cancer treatment and for chronic and rare diseases, the chairperson of major drugmaker Biocon Ltd said ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's budget announcement,

Research suggests that alcohol drives cancer by at least five different mechanisms, with the risk of cancer increasing the more a person drinks. And the carcinogenic effects of alcohol may be more pronounced in people with a genetic predisposition to cancer.

A new way of interpreting standard blood tests could help GPs spot cancer warning signs sooner, according to scientists. The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust said it was the first in the country to apply an algorithm to routine blood analysis alongside the University of Exeter.

The mother of a nine-year-old boy who has a rare type of cancer said she is "blown away every day" by the help and support of her local community. Oliver Stephenson was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when he was four and given the all clear in 2021, but the cancer returned just before Christmas.

Cancer diagnoses are shifting from older to younger adults and from men to women, according to a report released Thursday by the American Cancer Society.

Although long considered a disease of aging, certain cancers are turning up more often in younger women, according to a new report.

Cancer diagnoses are expected to exceed two million in 2025, with approximately 618,120 deaths predicted, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual cancer trends report.

The American Cancer Society's annual cancer trend report shows cancer mortality is decreasing but cancer rates are increasing in young adults and women.

Women are now being diagnosed with cancer more often than men in certain age groups, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. Among adults aged 50-64, cancer rates are slightly higher in women, and women under 50 are almost twice as likely as men in the same age group to receive a cancer diagnosis.

The FTC report found that from 2017 to 2022, three PBMs—UnitedHealth Group's Optum, CVS Health's CVS Caremark and Cigna's Express Scripts—marked up prices at their pharmacies by hundreds or thousands of percent.

Barry Stein had ignored symptoms that started appearing in 1995, until he was diagnosed with stage four colorectal cancer.