Britain lags behind in cancer survival rates - Survival rates for patients suffering from cancers of the lung, breast, colorectum and prostate in England and Wales are lower than the average rates...

Ovarian cancer: tests inaccurate - Although ovarian cancer is the major killer among the gynecological malignancies and nearly 14,000 women died from it last year in the US, screening t...

Breast cancer screening - false positive results - I write to thank you for the the article on breast cancer (Vol 3 No 10).

Ovarian cancer - Women who have their first child later in life greatly reduce the risk of developing ovarian cancer, researchers believe. The risk falls by 10 per cen...

Ovarian cancer: newest hrt risk - Women who stay on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for more than 10 years increase their risks of developing fatal ovarian cancer by 70 per cent, a m...

Yoghurt risky for ovarian cancer? - Q:While reading the special report on alternatives to hysterectomy (vol 7 no 1), I came cross the paragraph that says that women should eliminate dair...

Over one third of mammograms give false reading - Up to one third of women given a mammogram could suffer the anguish of a false positive where the test incorrectly detects breast cancer and consequen...

Hiv test giving false positives in 5% of all cases - Thousands of people wrongly believe they are HIV infected because of the standard Western blot test which is giving false positive results in nearly 5...