Search results

Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to destroy cancer cells.

Most children and many adults with acute leukaemia can expect to be cured, while chronic leukaemia can be successfully managed.

Bowel cancer is highly curable if found at an early stage.

Multiple myeloma is cancer of plasma cells in the bone marrow.

Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer that can develop decades after exposure to asbestos.

Bone cancer can develop as either a primary cancer, meaning that the cancer started in the bones, or a secondary cancer, meaning that the cancer started somewhere else and spread to the bones.

Uterine cancer is one of the most common gynaecological cancers.

Brain cancer symptoms and treatment depend on which part of the brain is affected.

Smoking increases the risk of mouth cancer six-fold.

Risk factors for throat cancer include smoking or chewing tobacco, drinking alcohol and Human papillomavirus (HPV).