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Professor Richards: according to current advice including from the WHO, breast cancer screening saves lives and the benefits considerably outweigh the harms.

Breast screening controversy triggers review by cancer czar

26 October 2011

The NHS breast screening programme will be formally reviewed by an independent panel following doubt...

Bowel cancer awareness campaign to launch in January

8 August 2011

GPs can expect an increase in people presenting with symptoms of bowel cancer when an awareness camp...

Breast cancer: treatment benefits clarified by long-term studies (Photograph: SPL)

Breast cancer risk can be cut by 32%

3 August 2011

Taking tamoxifen for the full five-year treatment period reduces women's chances of dying from hormo...

Bowel cancer: targeted screening may be more effective

Bowel screening must focus on healthy individuals

10 May 2011

Bowel cancer screening should be targeted at healthy individuals as it may not benefit those with sh...

More than 10,000 cases of melanoma are diagnosed in the UK each year (Photograph: SPL)

Arthritis drug could stop malignant melanoma

24 March 2011

A drug for arthritis could be used to treat skin cancer, according to research co-authored in the UK...

Dr Nagpaul said it was dangerous for PCTs to reduce scan referrals (Photograph: SPL)

Exclusive - PCT bid to cut costs endangers patients

24 March 2011

PCTs could be putting patients at risk by pressuring practices to cut their use of diagnostic tests,...

NHS breast screening picked up thousands of small cancers (Photograph: SPL)

Detection of small cancers proves benefit of screening

14 March 2011

Nearly 6,000 cancers too small to be detected by hand were found by the NHS Breast Screening Program...

Blood vessel growth is inhibited by cancer drug bevacizumab (Photograph: SPL)

Cancer drug combination can trigger risk of bleeding

4 February 2011

GPs need to be aware of the bleeding risks associated with the use of chemotherapy or biological the...

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