SCREENING men for prostate cancer could slash deaths by 13 per cent, saving thousands of lives a year, a study suggests.

UK prostate cancer rates are up 10% since 2015 - a rise attributed to an ageing population and better diagnostics.

A CANCER that creeps up quietly, spotted when it’s too late – 60 per cent of patients will die within a year of their ...

The NHS has urged people to see their GP if they experience a symptom lasting three weeks or longer. According to the health ...

Dr Ian Walker, executive director of policy at Cancer Research UK, said: “While this long-running study suggests that screening using the PSA test could help reduce deaths from prostate cancer, it ...

Scientists have pinpointed a “Big Bang” moment in bowel cancer—when cells first evade the immune system. This early immune ...

The common cholesterol-lowering medication protects patients’ mental skills used to plan, organise and manage emotions ...

Long meetings involving dozens of clinicians can delay patient care and leave no room for service improvement. It’s time for ...

Health experts have urged people to look out for two symptoms that appear at night as they could be warning signs of a ...

Tom Collins, research lead for discovery research at the Wellcome Trust, said: "Through tracing the earliest stages of bowel ...

Studies since then have shown that serotonin can switch on genes involved in cancer growth. This mechanism has been seen in brain, liver and pancreatic cancers – and it may play a role in many other ...