A new cancer drug for patients with the same faulty gene as actress Angelina Jolie has shown “impressive responses” in a clinical trial, researchers have said.

A daily dose of aspirin improves survival rates among women with breast cancer significantly, research has shown.

Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world’s top killer by 2010, international health experts said today.

A new test which may help some women with breast cancer avoid chemotherapy has been developed by leading Dublin-based scientists, it was revealed today.

A WONDER drug being used before surgery to fight an aggressive form of breast cancer is reducing the need for mastectomies.

THE US Food and Drug Administration last night cleared the way for production of a new drug which will lead to the creation of 150 new jobs in Cork.

AN Irish-made drug is offering leukaemia sufferers a new lease of life in a huge breakthrough.

THE world’s 1.3 billion smokers could eventually have a powerful new way to kick the habit — a vaccine against nicotine.