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Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

A blood test that detects nine compounds in blood may offer a safe way to diagnose early cases of lung cancer, Celera Corporation reported on Tuesday.

Blockbuster prescription drugs used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions can increase the risk of potentially deadly cancer in children and teenagers, U.S. health regulators said on Tuesday in ordering stronger warnings on such medications.

Diabetics who took the drug metformin, which makes the body process insulin better, had a 62 percent lower risk of pancreatic cancer compared to those who had never received it, U.S. researchers said on Saturday.

One of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer may originate in the cells lining the mammary ducts, which can be targeted in the fight against the disease, experts in Australia say.

The Philippines's former President Corazon Aquino, whose people power revolution swept dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power in the Philippines, died on Saturday after a 16-month battle against colon cancer, her family said. She was 76.

Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and will have surgery in early August.

Senator Christopher Dodd announced on Friday that he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and plans to have surgery during the Senate's August recess.

Tiny ovarian tumors lurk in the Fallopian tubes for an average of four years before they grow large enough to be detected, researchers reported on Monday in a study that explains why diagnosis usually comes too late to save a woman's life.

A large 15-year study of men who had surgery for prostate cancer found only a small percentage died from cancer, adding to evidence that some men might be able to skip radical surgery to treat the often slow-growing tumors, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

One month on from a cancer scare that investors feared might sink sales of Sanofi-Aventis's diabetes treatment Lantus, the French drugmaker appears to have escaped the worst.

New studies have found direct evidence of a lung cancer risk from the presence of colorless, odorless radon gas in many homes, a United Nations committee said in a report released Tuesday.

Even among those people who have had pre-cancerous growths on previous colonoscopies, waiting ten years after two negative such tests could be safe, according to a new study.

Adam Yauch, 44, a member of the Beastie Boys was diagnosed with cancer in his left parotid gland about two weeks ago, he said in a video posted on the band’s website today.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc said U.S. health regulators accepted for review the company's response on its experimental cancer drug, Zevalin, as a Class 1 submission -- which typically means the regulators would review the drug within 60 days.

A experimental drug being developed by Roche blocks a common biological pathway linked to the spread of many cancers and has proved highly effective in mice, scientists said on Wednesday.

Using a relatively new way to test for blockages in the heart's arteries as a general screening exam could lead to more than thousands of new cases of cancer in the US, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Later diagnosis and differences in treatment may be among the reasons that African Americans are less likely than whites to survive colon cancer, a study published Monday suggests.

The steady climb in the incidence of thyroid cancer since the early 1980s has been attributed to an increase in screening in recent years and the diagnosis of more small tumors.

The 67-year-old North Korea leader Kin Jong II was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was expected to live no more than five years, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday, citing unidentified sources from Chinese and South Korean intelligence officials.