Run for your life: why cancer treatments won’t stop me

Jenny Baker planned plenty of runs to celebrate her 50th birthday. Instead, she found herself undergoing chemotherapy. If she couldn’t do marathons, she could at least run to the hospital each time

Spa retreats for people with cancer

Although a spa seems like the perfect place for someone recovering from serious illness, most are very wary of taking bookings from people who have been treated for cancer. Thankfully a handful have changed their approach, says Joanna Moorhead

Hair care: the salon wagon taking the stigma out of fitting a wig

If you’re rich or famous, a high-end wig is usually a lifestyle accessory. If you have cancer or alopecia, getting one can be a necessary embarrassment. One hairdresser is making it easier with a van full of wigs that visits people at home

Coping with cancer at university showed me who my friends are

My treatment made studying tough, but supportive friends helped me through

Would I like to take the Ubble ‘death test’? Er, no thank you

An online quiz claims to be able to tell if you’re likely to die within five years. I think I’d rather concentrate on living

Cancer breakthroughs trigger big pharma interest in drugs and deals

Companies are scrambling to get into the immunotherapy market, which experts think could eventually be worth up to £26bn a year in sales

What coping with cancer taught me about letting go

Cancer taught Lain Hensley an important lesson: sometimes a business leader must let others carry the burden in order to make an impact that lasts

17% of women diagnosed with breast cancer ‘waited over a month to see GP’

YouGov poll for Breast Cancer Care also found that one in 20 women wait over six months after spotting symptoms, with potentially fatal consequences

Pensioners seven times more likely to have skin cancer than in 1970s

Rise of the cheap package holiday and desirability of tanned skin blamed for increase

The Village Effect by Susan Pinker review – the science of friendship

Being sociable can lengthen your life – but there’s a risk of making it into a self-improvement chore

Publishers to cease printing paleo cookbook and ‘anti-cancer’ diet book

Bubba Yum Yum paleo cookbook, co-authored by Pete Evans, will not make it to shops after health outcry and Belle Gibson’s The Whole Pantry is under review

Belle Gibson’s book publisher never verified cancer survivor’s health claims

Penguin says it published The Whole Pantry ‘in good faith’ and never checked Gibson’s claims she cured her brain cancer through diet and lifestyle alone

Why media coverage of alternative cancer cures is dangerous

Michael Marshall: A Mirror Online report on a breast cancer patient who refused medical treatment for so-called natural alternatives ignores the health risks