Cow’s milk and cancer

A new book suggests that cutting out dairy produce can reduce the risk of breast cancer. Gillian Ross examines the evidence

Our breasts, ourselves

Breast screening using mammography is "unjustified", concludes an article published yesterday in the medical magazine The Lancet*. In an argument which would not have disgraced a bunch of clerics debating the number of angels who could stand on the head of a pin, two Danish medics have trashed a decade's worth of research and added yet more weight to the growing grumbling about the money being spent on early screening for breast cancer.

Gamble of a lifetime

Teresa Kay is single and 25 years old. Two months ago, she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph glands. Doctors calculate that, in her age group, there is a 50% chance of a cure if the cancer is treated conventionally.

What works

No 7: Prostate cancer Is surgery, radiotherapy or 'watchful waiting' the best option?

The King and I

When Janice Wheeler discovered a lump under her right jaw, she thought it was a blocked saliva gland. She ignored it, and it seemed to go away. One year later the lump reappeared and this time she went to her GP who referred her to hospital for a biopsy. The diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma came as a shock to her but, unlike King Hussein of Jordan, who succumbed to the disease on Sunday after many attempts at treatment, two years after chemotherapy Janice remains well and free of disease.