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.

Men get breast cancer too

And a new study shows that the incidence is rising, says Joanna Moorhead.

Doctors alert Australia to perils of Barbie pill

It was developed and will be promoted as a way of preventing skin cancer but the side-effects of Melanotan include an artificial tan, increased libido and weight loss.

Obesity: rising fears of cancer time bomb

Prostate, womb, kidney, breast, bowel, pancreas ... increases in killer diseases linked to being overweight point to accelerating crisis.

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.

Ban for HRT in cancer warning

'Wonder' drug no longer first choice for osteoporosis.

What is killing our children?

A rare bone cancer has struck six teenagers in the Cornish town of Helston. Three have died and families fear other cases will follow. But what causes such cancer clusters, asks Linda Jackson.

Breast practice

Dr John Briffa on the foods that can help reduce the risk of breast cancer.

Just 70

With news of another friend having breast cancer, it seems that this is becoming an epidemic for our age.

Age of anxiety

Maria Margaronis has had enough of breast cancer scare stories.

A new drug gives hope of longer life to women with breast cancer… if only they could get it

There still remains a lottery over cancer drugs in Britain, but not for the traditional reason of NHS underfunding. Jo Revill reports.

‘I don’t think it’s useful to be angry any more’

Earlier this week, writer and radio producer Sarah Parkinson died of breast cancer. Last year, she wrote this article about how she and husband Paul Merton were coping