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MPs sent cigarette packs to highlight their deadly design: Westminster MPs are being sent examples of widely available cigarette packets to show how the tobacco industry markets i...; 12 Feb 2013
Late diagnosis and lack of treatment access may contribute to poor UK lung cancer survival: The UK's one-year lung cancer survival lags behind Australia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Sweden according to a new inte...; 11 Feb 2013
Early results show two drugs may be better than one to treat most deadly skin cancer: Adding lung cancer drugs to targeted melanoma treatment could increase survival for certain patients, according to resea...; 11 Feb 2013
GPs refer eighty per cent of suspected cancers after two visits: More than 80 per cent of patients suspected of having cancer are being referred by their GP in the first two consultatio...; 8 Feb 2013
Friends and family say doctors should give lifestyle advice to cancer patients: Over 80 per cent of cancer patients' close friends and family think that doctors should give their cancer patients lifes...; 8 Feb 2013
Desire for a tan is making teenage girls ignore sunbed dangers: Teenage girls desperate for a tan are determined to find ways of getting round the law banning under-18s from using sunb...; 30 Jan 2013
Cancer death rates over a third higher in men than women: Men are over 35 per cent more likely to die from cancer than women in the UK, according to a new report....; 29 Jan 2013
Docetaxel significantly increases survival for incurable gastric cancers: Survival for advanced stomach and oesophagael cancer patients increases by 40 per cent when treated with the chemotherap...; 23 Jan 2013
Prostate cancer lifetime risk trebles in 25 years: Boys born in 2015 will have almost three times the risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point during the...; 23 Jan 2013
Alliance of translational research centres established to accelerate global drug development: Six of the world's top translational health research centres today announced that they have come together to form a new...; 21 Jan 2013

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