Oncology & Cancer

UK doctors urged to use preventative breast cancer drugs

Hundreds of thousands of women at high risk of developing breast cancer in Britain should be given drugs which could dramatically reduce their chances of getting the disease, doctors were advised Tuesday.

Oncology & Cancer

Confronting breast cancer is crucial to India's economic development

Breast cancer is a growing epidemic in India. It could kill 76,000 women a year by 2020, according to a recent study. It claimed more than 70,000 lives in 2012. At the heart of the issue is the country's rapid economic development, ...

Oncology & Cancer

Technology takes on breast cancer

(Medical Xpress)—An ANU student has developed a smartphone app for the early detection of breast cancer.

Oncology & Cancer

Gaps in public and expert views on cancer risk

There are substantial gaps between expert recommendations and public knowledge about risk factors for cancer, though these gaps are closing for some cancer types, according to new University of Otago research.

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