Cancer

Erlotinib is useful both in the setting of patients who either progressed on or poorly tolerated traditional cytotoxic chemotherapy.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the Western World.

A large Danish study rebuts the accepted idea that differences in an estrogen gene affect the risk of heart attack and stroke in response to hormone replacement therapy.

Group exercise sessions can help to improve the physical and psychological wellbeing of people diagnosed with breast cancer, a new study has found.

Use of the drug gemcitabine for chemotherapy significantly delays the recurrence of cancer for patients following pancreatic cancer surgery, according to a new study from Germany and Austria.

Current practices around the use of oral chemotherapy need to be improved, according to US doctors.

Once-off melanoma screening of adults aged 50 years or older appears to be as cost-effective as other recommended cancer screening programmes, according to a new study.

Individuals who received instruction on skin self-examination with their partners may be more likely to engage in this cancer prevention behaviour, according to a new report.

Young women who are diagnosed with breast cancer need not wait the recommended two years after treatment before attempting to conceive, researchers have found.

Vaccination in combination with a screening programme could prevent up to 95 per cent of cervical cancers and eventually could virtually eradicate the disease, which kills a quarter of a million people worldwide every year.