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Breathing polluted air in Taiwan is more likely to cause lung cancer than smoking a pack of cigarettes per day, a new study has revealed.
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Around 1,000 children under 14 years old are diagnosed with cancer every year in Canada, and over 100 die, the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba said.

The Federal Government announced on Tuesday that it is working on a deal to partner with the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority to help with the acquisition and maintenance of radiotherapy equipment in cancer centers in the country. Prof Usman Aliyu, the Director-General of the National Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment, revealed this in Abuja.

Patrick Soon-Shiong is opening a new front in the war on the deadly disease.

In January, the pharmaceutical company Roche paid more than a billion dollars to buy about half of a small company called Foundation Medicine. Foundation has not invented any new drugs or life-saving devices. Most insurance companies won’t pay for its main product, and like a lot of biotech companies, it loses money. The big bucks are […]

Funding drug development for rare cancers can hurt patients.

Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.

A study at RPI’s Lighting Research Center tested the effects of digital tablets and different colors of light on subjects’ circadian rhythms.Brittany Wood et al. / RPI In the summer of 2012, the American Medical Association (AMA) adopted a new policy stating that nighttime light exposure is hazardous to human health. “The primary human concerns […]

Disrupting cancer’s diaspora may lead to new therapies.