Breast cancer surgeon who got breast cancer

Liz O’Riordan had to stop working as a breast cancer surgeon because of her own cancer. How did she move on?

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A rasher of bacon ‘ups cancer risk’

Eating even small amounts of red or processed meat increases the risk of bowel cancer, study finds.

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Swansea boy’s ‘neck pain’ was rare throat cancer

Eight-year-old McKenzie John, from Swansea, is due to undergo proton beam therapy next month.

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‘Dismantling cancer’ reveals weak spots

Research has thrown up 600 new cancer vulnerabilities and each could be the target of a drug.

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‘My bowel cancer was missed because I’m young’

Linzi Page thinks her bowel cancer was missed because doctors do not expect people under 50 to get the disease.

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