Study: Raloxifene Prevents Breast Cancer As Well As Old Standby, but With Fewer Side Effects...

People with advanced cancers who try experimental treatments are helped more than previously thought, according to the most comprehensive look at government-sponsored tests over a decade.

Different ways of treating bowel cancer will be assessed

More than 16,000 people in the UK are killed by bowel cancer each year.

Around 2,500 volunteers are being sought to test the drug Cetuximab, to be used alongside chemotherapy.

The linear accelerator can focus radiation more accurately on cancer tumours making treatment less toxic for the patient, health bosses say.

Screening can detect early cancer

Cancer could be picked up by looking for specific gene patterns in urine samples, they told the American Association for Cancer Research.