A RECORD number of Brits are ditching the NHS and draining their savings to fund private cancer treatment, figures show.

Scientists have identified a crucial molecular switch that decides whether pancreatic cancer cells resist chemotherapy or respond to it. The key player, a gene called GATA6, keeps tumours in a more ...

Cancer patients are giving up on the NHS and going private for chemotherapy in record numbers. Experts said desperate patients were increasingly forced to spend their life savings, or remortgage their ...

After nearly a decade of treatment, a Texas woman reached remission through an FDA-approved cellular therapy for chronic ...

A one‑year course of T‑DM1 offers excellent cancer‑free survival for early HER2‑positive breast cancer, with far less nerve ...

A Virginia woman is being praised for her heroism after she saved two boys from an apartment fire. She managed to put out the flames after getting home following a round of chemotherapy treatment.

Across the studies, women prescribed structured exercise programs during treatment had significant gains in quality of life compared with those having standard care alone. The ben ...

Advances in cancer treatment mean that more people than ever are surviving the disease. However, some of the most effective ...

Meagan Meadows was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer at just 24, but she rang the bell after her last round of chemo exactly eight months later ...

A new tool co-developed by investigators from Cedars-Sinai Health Sciences University can predict which of two available chemotherapy options for pancreatic cancer would be more effective for an ...

For many women with breast cancer, the very treatment that saves their lives can also bring fatigue, loss of muscle mass, ...

Nikola Topic details chemotherapy treatment for testicular cancer.