Breast cancer mammograms: overrated – and over-diagnosing women

Karuna Jaggar: It is time to radically re-think the flawed philosophy behind the 'early detection' tenet of the breast cancer awareness movement

Having cancer is not a fight or a battle

Why is military language used to describe cancer? These words are meant to help patients but can have the opposite effect, writes Kate Granger

England and Wales health atlas shows areas with high and low disease risk

Central London, north Norfolk and parts of Suffolk and Brighton and Hove revealed are healthiest places to live, say researchers

How do you know when it’s time to refuse treatment for incurable cancer?

Kate Granger was diagnosed with terminal cancer aged 29 and chose to have palliative chemotherapy to prolong her life

The nanotechnology in your sunscreen

Nanoparticles prevent skin cancer by absorbing UV light, without making your face feel 'cakey'. Here is how they do it

My brother’s brain surgery brought us back together

You don't expect to look after an adult sibling, but that's what Alex Shearer had to do when his brother got a brain tumour

Diets high in meat, eggs and dairy could be as harmful to health as smoking

People under 65 who eat a lot of meat, eggs and dairy are four times as likely to die from cancer or diabetes, study suggests

It’s time to kick the high-protein diet habit – before it kills you

Holly Baxter: Veggies, tuck into your hummus with glee – it's now almost impossible to deny that eating too much meat, dairy and eggs is unhealthy

Four women given pioneering womb transplants impregnated via IVF

Swedish medical team hoping for world first as women born without uterus or who lost it to cancer get embryo transfers

Could mushrooms be the cure for cancer?

Mushrooms are being hailed as a miracle cure for cancer. But can a shiitake stir-fry really work wonders? Matthew Jenkin investigates