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5 healthcare myths that can drive you to unneeded treatments

10 April 2018

Diagnostic tests are better than ever but they pick up conditions that might be perfectly harmless, forcing us to rethink when things are best left alone

Touching personal medical stories are no substitute for science

4 April 2018

Routine screening for prostate cancer seems like a good thing, but for every life saved many more are blighted by unnecessary treatments

23andMe's breast cancer test may create false sense of security

7 March 2018

Genomics firm 23andMe is the first to receive approval for direct-to-consumer cancer gene tests in the US, but will recipients misunderstand the results?

Cancer algorithm uses game theory to double survival time

7 March 2018

Using algorithms to monitor cancer evolution and apply game theory to their treatment has doubled the survival time of men with advanced prostate cancer

Calm down – China is not racing ahead with human CRISPR trials

25 January 2018

Despite treating 86 people since 2015, China's approach to CRISPR genome-editing in humans is basic and risky

Bowel cancer test may be a much better way to screen for polyps

16 January 2018

A new blood test seems to be more than twice as good at detecting bowel cancer than the method currently used to screen for polyps and early bowel cancer

First timeline of a cancer tracks tumours from origin to spread

11 May 2017

One man’s bowel cancer has been tracked from the very start to the very end, revealing some of the surprising ways in which the disease spreads through the body