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A newly discovered gene mutation raises a woman's risk of breast cancer and may be considered the third such inherited gene

• 07 августа 2014, 11:59

Daily, long-term doses of aspirin can slash the risk of cancer of the digestive tract.

• 06 августа 2014, 13:22

Richard Mellon Scaife, a generous donor to US conservative causes and heir to a sizeable banking fortune, died according to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, a newspaper that he owned. He was 82.

• 05 июля 2014, 14:31

US doctors treating Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala have ruled out lung cancer and diagnosed the 75-year-old with tuberculosis, a spokesman for the premier's Nepali Congress party said.

• 26 июня 2014, 15:02

Hundreds of thousands of people flocked the streets of Nigeria's second city on Friday to pay their final respects to one of the country's most influential traditional rulers as he was laid to rest.

• 07 июня 2014, 14:48

Immunotherapy has made great strides against cancers like melanoma that were once believed incurable, though scientists still do not understand why it works well in some cases but not others.

• 04 июня 2014, 10:09

Samsung Electronics promised on Wednesday to pay compensation to a number of employees who claim they contracted cancer from working at the company's semiconductor plants.

• 14 мая 2014, 15:01

Certain chemicals that are common in everyday life have been shown to cause breast cancer in lab rats and are likely to do the same in women, US researchers said.

• 13 мая 2014, 03:27

Aspirin can reduce the risk of colon cancer by half, but only in people who carry high levels of a specific type of gene, a study found.

• 25 апреля 2014, 11:26

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, the prizefighter whose racially tinged wrongful murder conviction made him a symbol of injustice and a pop culture cause, died on Sunday at the age of 76.

• 21 апреля 2014, 11:09

Kazakhstan has topped Central Asia by breast cancer rates.

• 20 апреля 2014, 18:32

All the proceeds from the Almaty Marathon will be donated the the Children’s Oncological Department of the Pediatrics and Children Surgery Research Center.

• 02 апреля 2014, 18:29

Kyzylorda city is southern Kazakhstan to partake in production of anti-cancer onion drinks that kill cancer cells.

• 17 марта 2014, 11:38

Untimely detection of cancer is a problem in Kazakhstan.

• 25 февраля 2014, 14:38

French doctors said on Friday they had used gene testing to help women with advanced breast cancer get access to clinical trials that may offer a better chance of treating their disease.

• 07 февраля 2014, 18:02

People who smoke or have lung cancer should think twice about taking vitamin supplements, according to a Swedish study Wednesday that showed certain antioxidants may make tumors grow faster.

• 31 января 2014, 09:50

A new cancer center in Astana will provide diagnose of cancer at early stages.

• 30 января 2014, 22:20

Smoking cigarettes can cause even more health problems than lung cancer, including blindness, diabetes, erectile dysfunction and liver cancer.

• 20 января 2014, 09:53

A drug used to treat advanced breast and colorectal cancers has been linked to sometimes fatal skin reactions in patients, its Swiss manufacturer and Canadian health officials said Wednesday.

• 05 декабря 2013, 11:50

Australian actor Hugh Jackman revealed Thursday that he had been treated for skin cancer, posting a picture of himself with a plaster on his nose.

• 22 ноября 2013, 16:06