Aspirin – yes or no?
It reduces the risk of some cancers - but also has links with miscarriage. Luisa Dillner reports on the benefits and dangers of aspirin.
HRT found to give early benefits, but risks persist
Government advisers say the good outweighs the bad for the short term, but suggest breast cancer danger increases after a year.
Dear doctor
Dr Ann Robinson on the joys of melatonin, toes from hell, and preventing prostate cancer.
Hope in ovarian cancer battle
Scientists have identified a gene that seems to prevent ovarian
cancer. They found that the gene was "switched off" in almost 90% of
the ovarian tumours in their study.
The death dividend
Paul Foot: Figures last month from the health and safety executive reveal a shocking and rising tide of mesothelioma - a lung cancer caused exclusively by inhaling asbestos.
Dear doctor
Dr Ann Robinson answers your queries on fat calculations, benign lumps and droopy eyelids.
Flying doctor
My husband is in remission from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has been clear for five years. The chemotherapy has resulted in peripheral nerve damage and he has numbness in the feet and lack of circulation to both legs. We would very much like to visit Australia next year for a family wedding. Is there any significant danger of DVT, and what can be done to reduce the risk of catching anything through the recirculated air?
Hard to swallow
Can aspirin really help beat breast cancer? Dr Luisa Dilner assesses a new report.
Dear doctor
Too young for prostate cancer at 43?
The cancer revolution
When Sarah Allen, a mother of four, discovered she had a virulent form of breast cancer, she feared for her future. Two years on, she is the symbol of a biotechnological success that promises to change for ever our treatment of disease. Jo Revill reports.