Shot of cancer?

A vaccine against cervical cancer is on the way. So, asks Helen Pidd, could there soon be injections to prevent other forms of the deadly disease?

Prostate gland? What’s that all about, then?

An alarming 10% of Britons think that women have a prostate gland, while 90% don't know what it does. As Prostate Cancer Awareness Week kicks off, Helen Pidd reports on a disease that kills 10,000 men a year.

The bandanna

Dina Rabinovitch: I have my worst week yet because of the state of my hair. Then I get my buzz-cut. The children look shell-shocked.

Tree of life

It's well known that extra virgin oil can protect against heart disease. It may help with breast cancer, too. Dr John Briffa reaches for the olives.

Pregnant pause

All mums-to-be know the importance of folic acid.But do they risk breast cancer by protecting their foetus? Dr John Briffa labours over the facts.

Battle of the bottle

Could suspicions of a link between milk and ovarian cancer sound the death knell for the UK's once-essential pinta? Joanna Moorhead reports.

Boys don’t cry

Ignore it, deny it, brave it out ... men need to change their attitudes to illness. Jo Carlowe gets tough.

Getting to know the enemy within

Dina Rabinovitch thought breast cancer didn't attack women like her. After all, she'd had children young and breastfed for several years. Then she asked her GP about a lump in her right breast. In the first of her new fortnightly columns she describes what happened next.

Extreme measures

Why are so many breast cancer patients opting for mastectomy instead of lump excision? Joanna Moorhead finds out.

Beating cancer nature’s way

In a week that's seen the deaths of Bob Monkhouse, Alan Bates and Dinsdale Landen, all victims of cancer, here is a story of one man's successful - if unorthodox - struggle against the disease. By Tony Jackson.