Some 85 percent of cancer cases affecting Peruvian women are detected in already advanced stages, state news agency Andina reported Tuesday.
Mammography screening can reduce the risk of death from breast cancer by 40 percent in women aged 50 to 69, a major international review suggested Wednesday.
Regular use of aspirin or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) can reduce most people's colorectal cancer risk but a few individuals with rare genetic variants do not share this benefit, a study suggested Tuesday.
A five-storey gray building within the southeast corner of Beijing's Second Ring Road is one of the city's burgeoning "cancer hotels".
A five-storey gray building within the southeast corner of Beijing's Second Ring Road is one of the city's burgeoning "cancer hotels".
The majority of cancer cases can be explained by "bad luck" rather than the result of environmental factors and inherited genes, a U.S. study said Thursday.
Portuguese researchers have claimed that they have developed a new method to diagnose stomach cancer by using 2D images.
Singapore scientists said on Monday that they have identified a new gene, which is strongly associated with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), a highly aggressive cancer that often has early relapse and metastasis following chemotherapy.
Excess body weight causes around 481,000 new cancer cases a year in adults worldwide, according to new estimates published Friday in the British medical journal The Lancet Oncology.
Experts have warned of the great dangers of lung cancer at a press conference in Vienna Wednesday, citing the huge global death toll the most fatal form of cancer brings, and urging preventative measures.
Cancer was the cause of death for 1.281 million persons in the EU in 2011, responsible for 26.3 percent of all deaths, according to data released Tuesday by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU.
The incidence of bowel cancer is dramatically lower after screening, the Australian National University (ANU) quoted a new report as saying on Monday.
Chinese scientists have extracted a virus known as M1 that could kill cancer cells without harming normal cells, giving hope for future research and development of cancer therapies.
China has reported 4.6 times more cases of thyroid cancer over the past decade, with women worst hit.
Lung cancers can lie dormant for over 20 years before suddenly turning into an aggressive form of the disease, according to a study published Thursday in the U.S. journal Science.
Researchers in Japan have developed a chip that mimics human organs, a technology that could test the efficacy and side effects of drugs and speed the development of new drugs.
The European Union (EU) has to increasingly invest in cancer prevention that is the best way to fight this widespread and deadly illness, EU health ministers agreed during a two-day informal meeting that concluded here Tuesday.
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