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Three questions to ask your doctor before any treatment

Too often medical advice turns out to be ineffective, or even harmful. Here’s how to make sure you’re getting the right treatment

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The scary reality of medical U-turns, and how to stop them

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Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer

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Counting genetic mutations predicts how soon you’ll get cancer

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A fossil foot bone showing signs of a malignant tumour

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Fossil tumour is oldest evidence of human cancer discovered yet

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A woman jogging along a road

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Desk job death risk is eliminated by an hour's walk or cycle

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Many bottles of alcohol on a table

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Alcohol linked to at least seven cancers – not just liver cancer

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A woman sleeping with a shaft of light falling on her

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Too much light weakens bones and changes immune system

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Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

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Optimism over cancer treatments should always be cautious

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Pan Pantziarka

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I help repurpose everyday drugs like aspirin to fight cancer

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Virtual reality lets you stroll around a breast cancer cell

Technology

Virtual reality lets you stroll around a breast cancer cell

Medical researchers are using virtual reality to create accurate, explorable versions of our insides. Alice Klein goes for a walk

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Microbubbles open brain's barrier to make chemo more effective

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Is proton beam therapy really a game-changing cancer treatment?

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'People said I was mad': Why I chose extreme treatment for my MS

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Extreme cure for MS reboots immune system – but can be fatal

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