Cancer 'raises travel premiums'
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People who have recovered from cancer are often refused travel insurance or charged more, a study says.
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Employer-sponsored health insurance premiums rose 11.2 percent this year, registering the fourth consecutive double-digit annual increase and pushing the cost of family coverage under the most common type of plan past $10,000, according to a new survey.
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The number of mutated genes driving cancer development is greater than previously thought, research shows.
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Cancers among children and older teenagers are increasing more quickly in Europe than 30 years ago, according to a major study published today.
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Airline travel has a significant effect on the spread of influenza, a new study reports.
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer cases and cancer deaths around the world, claiming 1.3 million lives each year.
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The financial pressures associated with cancer can have dire consequences for patients, a survey finds.
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MONDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) -- People who either have no health insurance or rely on Medicaid are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced cancers than people who have private health insurance, researchers from the American Cancer Society report.
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The costs associated with having breast cancer can amount to thousands of pounds, a charity says.
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People who pay for whole-body X-ray  scans in the hope of finding tumors at their earliest stages  may, ironically, be raising their overall risk of cancer,  doctors warned on Tuesday.
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The airline also announced today that it was increasing the shared cost of health care coverage and as part of its plan to avoid bankruptcy.
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LONDON British Airways announced Friday that it was increasing its fuel surcharge on both short-haul and long-haul tickets because of rising oil prices.
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Business & money: Risk of fares rising above cost of running services.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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Scientists in Iceland find that even distant relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves.
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Patients with coronary artery disease face nearly double the risk of healthy people for colorectal cancer, according to a Hong Kong study released Tuesday in the United States.
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A study conducted in Iceland indicates that your chances of getting certain types of cancer increase dramatically if someone in your family had the disease, including even a distant relative.