Cancer

Social smokers just as at risk of lung cancer as those smoking 20 a day © Getty Images

Social smokers just as at risk of lung cancer as those smoking 20 a day

Dog successfully treated with high-tech human cancer treatment © Jenna Forbes/PA

Dog successfully treated with high-tech human cancer treatment

Breast cancer: Early screening 'could save up to 400 lives a year' © Getty Images

Breast cancer: Early screening ‘could save up to 400 lives a year’

Blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms show © Getty Images

Blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms show

COVID-19: Scientists predict 3,500 deaths due to late cancer diagnosis © Getty Images

COVID-19: Scientists predict 3,500 deaths due to late cancer diagnosis

Seek and destroy: beneficial bacteria programmed to fight cancer © Getty Images

Personalised cancer vaccine ‘activates immune system’ in early trials

New, non-invasive cancer test can detect one mutation in a million DNA molecules © Getty Images

New, non-invasive cancer test can detect one mutation in a million DNA molecules

Prostate cancer blood test 'faster, kinder' than traditional biopsies © Getty Images

Prostate cancer blood test ‘faster and kinder’ than traditional biopsies

Breast cancer © Getty Images

Early-stage breast cancers ‘more than doubles’ risk of invasive breast cancer death later in life

When health tests can do more harm than good © Jason Raish

Michael Mosley When health tests can do more harm than good

'Game changing' prostate cancer test works in 15 minutes © Getty Images

‘Game-changing’ prostate cancer test works in 15 minutes

New prostate cancer guidance to help avoid chemotherapy and risk coronavirus infection © Simon Galloway/PA

New prostate cancer guidance to help avoid chemotherapy and risk coronavirus infection

Scientists unlock the key to cancer’s emergency brake (A view of the tool-compound docked to PP2A © Derek Taylor Lab)

Scientists unlock the key to cancer’s emergency brake

Potential childhood cancer treatment found in willow trees © Getty Images

Potential childhood cancer treatment found in willow trees

Babies with brain tumours could be 'spared chemotherapy' thanks to drug treatment © Annie Otzen / Getty

Babies with brain tumours could be ‘spared chemotherapy’ thanks to drug treatment