Abiraterone prostate cancer treatment to be covered by Axa PPP
Change of stance on abiraterone by UK's second largest private medical insurance firm brings it in line with Bupa and WPA
Cancer patients on abiraterone face cost conundrum
Prostate cancer drug is currently available through the Cancer Drugs Fund, but funding issues mean patients could either have to buy it themselves or take out health insurance
Tax and regulate sugar like alcohol and tobacco, urge scientists
Sugar is as toxic to the liver as alcohol and is at the root of obesity and certain types of liver disease, claim US scientists
Breast implant scandal firm also made testicles, ex-workers claim
PIP alleged to have used suspect silicone industrial grade gel in products for men, Paris newspaper reports
Rhys Morgan: ‘They are trying to silence me’
A 17-year-old schoolboy from Cardiff is proving an unlikely but effective opponent of powerful organisations pushing miracle cures for serious diseases
Siddhartha Mukherjee: ‘A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it’
How, exactly, do you go about writing a prize-winning book about cancer? Siddhartha Mukherjee, who has just won the Guardian First Book award for The Emperor of All Maladies, explains
David Servan-Schreiber: ‘He was not afraid of death’
David Servan-Schreiber was dying from a brain tumour – his last wish was to make his end a good one. Nick Duerden talks to his brother, Emile
UK’s oesophageal cancer rate is worst in Europe
Cancer charity attributes Britain's poor global placing – equal with Rwanda – to high alcohol intake and growing obesity
Multiple gene test allows more targeted treatment of cancer
SNaPshot test looks for mutations in key genes of patients with cancer so they can be given the most effective drugs
Wales bans unsupervised sunbeds
New rules to combat skin cancer say businesses in Wales face fines of up to £5,000 if they provide unsupervised sunbeds