Lung cancer - A reader’s friend has been recently diagnosed with lung cancer. She has been told it is inoperable and is just starting chemotherapy. Do readers know...

Lung cancer: - The drugs that don't work - Lung cancer patients are usually prescribed either Tarceva (erlotinib) or Iressa (glefitinib). Doctors will probably tell the unfortunate patient tha...

Eat your veggies to prevent lung cancer - Isothiocyanates valuable nutrients found in cruciferous vegetables may help to prevent lung cancer, say Chinese researchers. ...

Carotene trial 'political' - The recent decision of the American National Cancer Institute to stop a trial which was testing beta carotene as a cure for smoking induced lung cance...

Diabetes: ‘Safe’ drug linked to lung cancer - Pfizer withdrew its diabetes drug Exubera last October because of lagging sales. At the time the decision seemed strange. The drug, an inhaled form...

Can Vitamin C be used as a Cancer therapy? - The US National Cancer Institute is taking a hard look at the effects of vitamin C on the body, particularly its alleged ability to treat cancer. ......

Do screening programmes influence Cancer mortality? - Doctors tend to visualize many diseases as a little army that starts small, enlisting, at most, a soldier or two. If they can locate and flush out th...

Cancer: when it isn’t a killer - Dcis: precancer, benign cancer or what? - The cancer establishment was recently rocked to its core when Professor Michael Baum, an eminent and well-respected breast surgeon and researcher, cla...