European cancer cases rise 10 percent in two years
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Diagnosed cases of cancer rose by 10 percent in Europe over two years, an increase attributable to the continent's ageing population, the effects of smoking and better screening for breast cancer, doctors reported.
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will  fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the  number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on  Thursday.
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Mouth cancer rates could soar because young people are smoking and drinking more, experts have warned.
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Overweight and obesity levels are increasing at an alarming rate within the European Union, with over a quarter of men and a third of women considered obese in some countries, the European Commission has warned.
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More patients are receiving cancer drugs, according to a report by the UK government's cancer tsar.
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About 6,000 middle-aged or older UK women develop cancer each year because of excess weight, a study says.
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Rapidly growing number of cancer patients may in fact be the Chernobyl&#39;s aftereffect, scientists claim. A new study suggests more than 800 people in northern Sweden developed cancer as a result of the radioactive
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Europe-wide coordination is needed to tackle cancer more effectively, a group of leading experts say.
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The findings of a new study  confirm that lung cancer among nonsmokers is more common in  women than in men.
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The risk of developing a type of kidney cancer, renal cell carcinoma, is directly related to body mass index (BMI) and to the increase in BMI since age 20, according to the findings from two new European studies.
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Asia is bracing for a dramatic surge in cancer rates over the next decade as people in the developing world live longer and adopt bad Western habits that greatly increase the risk of the disease.
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Rates of obesity and diabetes are rising across England, government data reveals.
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The number of mutated genes that drive development of cancer is greater than previously thought, research shows.
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Swedish research institute finds that 10 or more years of cell phone use may increase the risk of acoustic neuroma, a noncancerous tumor.
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Cancer death rates are down in the United States, but certain cancers seem to becoming more common. Why?
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Heart disease and diabetes get all the attention, but expanding waistlines also increase the risk for at least nine types of cancer, US research suggests.
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The number of deaths in the United States rose in 2005 after a sharp decline the year earlier, a disappointing reversal that suggests the 2004 numbers were a fluke. Cancer deaths were also up.