Irish cancer deaths 'higher'
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Death rates from many cancers in Ireland are higher than in the rest of Europe, a cross-border report finds.
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Breast cancer cases have soared in the last three decades in England - but death rates are reducing.
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DUBLIN, Aug. 29 -- Ireland's average temperature has been rising at twice the global rate since the early 1980s and parts of the country are becoming wetter and more prone to flooding due to climate change, a government-funded report said Wednesday.
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Diabetes, or even high blood sugar levels that can lead to diabetes, appear to raise the risk of several major cancers, according to a large Korean study.
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Cancer is less common in adolescents and young adults than in older people. But in some ways it is more alarming.
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Managers are less likely to have cancer, while shop assistants have a greater chance of suffering back pain and nurses have a higher rate of heart disease, according to a new Australian study.
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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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Death rates in Scotland are falling faster in more affluent areas than in poorer places, a study says.
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but a longer life is not one of them, researchers reported yesterday. Writing in The Journal of Clinical Oncology
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DISTANT relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers say. Scientists looked at the family tree of about 32,000 patients
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THURSDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- People diagnosed with cancer who don't have health insurance are more likely to die because they are less likely to get screening tests and so are typically diagnosed with advanced disease, a new study from the American Cancer Society finds.
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The number of drug-related deaths in Scotland rises by a quarter, according to new figures.
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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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White Americans have a two-fold  higher incidence of bladder cancer than black Americans, but  the risk of death among blacks is 35 percent higher than whites  when patients with the same cancer stage and grade are  compared.
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Two new studies suggest that exposure to sunlight might not be as risky for cancer as is generally believed.
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Heart disease is Britain' biggest single  killer disease but more people are more worried about  developing Alzheimer's or cancer, according to a survey  released on Friday.
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Awareness of skin cancer is increasing but people are still not protecting themselves, warn experts.