Breast Cancer: Rates drop dramatically as women stop taking HRT - The rate of new breast cancer cases in the USA has suddenly dropped dramatically, and scientists reckon it’s because fewer women are taking hormone re...

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Biopsy raises risk of testicular cancer - Biopsies of undescended testicles, thought to increase a man's risk of developing testicular cancer later in life, reveal nothing of clinical use and...

Mammograms: They detect just half of all early-stage breast cancers - The standard mammogram test detects only half of all breast cancers in the vital early stages. A new study has found that the mammogram x-ray scan pic...

Biopsy and barcode scanners - ‘ve been told that I need a uterine biopsy and wondered if you had any information on this procedure that may help me weigh up the pros and cons.

Proof of prevention - In order to see if supplementation with specific vitamins and minerals could lower cancer rates, a joint team from the US National Cancer Institute in...

Asthma is on the decline: - But why? - The good news is that asthma is on the decrease after rising for 40 years. The bad news is that nobody has a clue about the reason for the sudden dec...

Skin Biopsy: The ‘safe’ procedure that goes wrong 30 per cent of the time - A skin biopsy is supposed to be one of the simplest, and safest, procedures – and yet it goes wrong in nearly a third of all cases.