Studies have shown that many of us are scared of things that are unlikely to kill us, whilst we happily engage in behaviours ...

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The culprit is a type of ...

Smoking, being exposed to toxic chemicals or radiation, and carrying mutations in certain genes are some of the best-known risk factors for cancer. But another cause of cancer isn't discussed as often ...

Oncologists have been sounding the alarm about a shocking uptick in cancer diagnoses among young adults, with some pointing the finger at junk food and processed meat. “We advise that people eat less ...

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Despite a decade of people eyeing their phones like potential death traps, recent studies have put the final nail in the cell-phones-cause-cancer coffin. So, feel free to call, text, or scroll — your ...

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer found today that atrazine, the second most widely used pesticide in the United States, is “probably carcinogenic to humans.” ...

Humans and chimpanzees share a close evolutionary relationship, genetically linking us. As a result, the two species can pass on infection and disease to one another. The world is full of potential ...

A three-year campaign to bring vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) to low-income countries has prevented 1.4 million ...

Chemotherapy, although lifesaving, causes a lot of side effects as it travels through the body to reach a cancerous tumor. From nausea to hair loss, these reactions arise because these drugs also ...

The group takes great pains to elucidate the mechanism by which fructose indirectly feeds lab-grown cancer cells, fish, and mice and it's quite impressive. I use the term "indirectly" because it's not ...