Cancer cells force neighbouring healthy tissue to betray the body and assist their growth and spread, a study has found.

A genetically modified cold sore virus could be be made available as a game-changing new treatment for deadly skin cancer within a year, scientists claim.

A landmark genetic study described as the ‘Rosetta stone’ of prostate cancer has opened up a new era of hope for men with advanced forms of the disease.

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A revolutionary pill for advanced skin cancer that may offer new hope to people with resistant disease is to be trialled in the UK next year.

A pioneering drug to treat an inherited cancer could be the beginning of personalised tumour treatments. 

Weather forecasting science is being used to predict the most effective ways to fight cancer in a ground-breaking new development.

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.

GPs could be routinely testing patients for their genetic risk of cancer within five years following a landmark study.

Scientists conducting the largest study of male breast cancer have identified a gene that raises the risk of developing the disease by half.

No convincing evidence has been revealed that mobile phones damage human health in spite of an "explosion" in research into the issue over the past decade, according to a review of scientific studies billed as the most comprehensive yet.

There is no convincing evidence that mobile phones damage human health in spite of an “explosion” in research into the issue over the past decade, according to a review of scientific studies billed as the most comprehensive yet.

SCIENTIFIC evidence is increasingly suggesting that mobile phones do not cause cancer.

A REVOLUTIONARY pill offering new hope to men with aggressive prostate cancer which is no longer responding to current treatments could be available within a year.

SCIENTISTS yesterday hailed a new chemotherapy drug as the first ever treatment to prolong life for men with advanced prostate cancer.

SCIENTISTS searching for the source of aggressive and deadly breast cancers may have been looking in the wrong place, new research suggests.

A new prostate cancer drug for late-stage patients with few treatment options has yielded early trial results described as “extremely exciting”.

New tests and treatments for prostate cancer could be on the horizon after the discovery of genetic code variants that triple the chances of developing the disease.

AN oxygen treatment given to divers with the “bends” is to be tried out on cancer patients suffering side-effects of radiotherapy.

PATIENTS with hereditary cancers including breast, ovarian and prostate, have responded well in preliminary trials to a new drug after other treatments had failed.

MEN who expect to die from prostate cancer have been offered new hope by drug researchers.

GIVING women fewer but large doses of radiotherapy may be just as effective at cutting the risk of breast cancer returning as smaller ones, experts say.