Sick children like my daughter don’t get enough information – so I made an app

When my daughter had cancer she knew nothing about hospital environments or treatment. I want to use her experience to benefit others

Can even moderate drinking increase the risk of cancer?

New research argues that just a small glass of wine a day increases the risk and that ‘responsible drinking’ targets are misleading

Poor diet is a factor in one in five deaths, global disease study reveals

Study compiling data from every country finds people are living longer but millions are eating wrong foods for their health

Cancer treatment: sorting the good news from the hype

The newspapers love a cancer research story, but many are misleading or won’t affect patients for many years. But there is plenty of progress worth reporting

HPV vaccine: anger over decision not to extend NHS scheme to boys

Health bodies condemn panel’s conclusion that more jabs against cancer-causing infection are unlikely to be cost-effective

Dementia and Alzheimer’s main cause of death for women, says Public Health England

Female life expectancy is now 83 years but many women will spend a quarter of their lives in ill-health, finds report

Tall men at bigger risk of aggressive prostate cancer, study suggests

UK scientists find chance of high-grade prostate cancer rises by 21% with every 10cm increment in height

Testicular cancer: men most at risk could be identified using new gene group

Discovery of 19 new genes could allow doctors to spot the 1% of men most at risk of the cancer, allowing closer monitoring or preventative treatment

Unhealthy Britain: half of adults walk less than a mile a day – survey

Poll commissioned by Cancer Research UK finds 52% of adults walk only 2,000 steps a day, figures described as ‘worrying’ and likely to increase cancer risk

Declaring my cancer on First Dates is helping others with terminal illness

The Channel 4 reality dating show didn’t lead to love, but Marie Curie asked me to share my experiences and raise awareness of its daffodil appeal

Heal thyself: meet the doctors living with the conditions they treat

Would you be in safer hands if your doctor had the same illness as you? We hear from a dermatologist with a skin complaint, a psychiatrist with depression, an oncologist who survived cancer and a maternal fetal medicine specialist who couldn’t conceive. By Chris Broughton