Cancer news

Thousands of healthy women with a family history of breast cancer could be offered a better drug option to reduce their risk of getting the disease.

Black African women are nearly twice as likely to be diagnosed with late stage breast cancer as white women in England.

A new personalised breast cancer programme which will map patients’ DNA and RNA to tailor treatment for individuals launches.

For International Day of Radiology we caught up with Dr Nisha Sharma, a breast imaging radiologist, to shed some light on what radiology is all about.

Around one in six women diagnosed with breast cancer go to their doctor with a symptom other than a lump – the most commonly reported breast cancer symptom.

Scientists from the UK and Sweden have discovered important cells that breast cancer can stem from in mice.

In the fourth of our series of posts for Stand Up To Cancer, we focus on a clinical trial that's finding faulty genes to improve breast cancer treatment.

White blood cells that usually help fight infections could be co-opted by cancer cells to help tumours spread, a new US study has found.

We step behind the microscope to look at research into shape-shifting cancer cells that's funded by Stand Up To Cancer.

Cancer patients are being given a new consent form to better explain the drugs they will be given before starting treatment.