A Toronto father of three is pleading with a drug company to give him an experimental drug to treat the cancer that has returned to his b...

I will never forget the look of calm determination in my mother's eyes when she and my father sat down with our family to tell us the horrible news. "Mummy had been diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer." Since she passed away in 2010, our charity F*CK CANCER inwykiwyk, has raised money for research and created community in her honour.

TORONTO, Canada` - The death toll cancer takes in Canada is on the decline, fuelled in large part by the fact that lung cancer is killing fewer Canadi...

TORONTO - The maker of a drug used to treat people with anemia as well as a form of cancer is warning that new cancers have been reported in a small n...

Just call them the Fantastic Five; a group of disease-fighting superfoods that boost energy while helping to vanquish illnesses like diabetes, heart d...

CHICAGO - Texting while driving, speeding and back-seat action aren't all that parents need to worry about when their kids are in cars: Add secondhand...

Toronto's medical community is buzzing about an invention that could change the way health professionals screen for infectious disease and...

What feels like a lifetime ago, I was a shell of a human, having endured a cancer diagnosis. My memories of this experience are especially close to the surface every year around this time, on what I call my "re"-birthday: the anniversary of my bone marrow transplant.

SAN FRANCISCO - A quarter-century after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first prescription drugs based on the main psychoactive ing...

There were a number of significant cancer research discoveries in 2011, according to the Canadian Cancer Society, and many of them were ma...

It's vacation time! For two wonderful weeks I will try to switch off and not to think too much of my job. It's a time to connect on a deeper calmer an...

More Canadian teens could be saying goodbye to their tanning beds. Conservative MP James Bezan, based in Manitoba, has proposed a member's bill th...

Childhood cancer survivors are not at a higher risk of having children with birth defects, suggests a new study. The study of...

It's shaving day for tens of thousands of mustachioed Canadians who have raised more money to battle prostate cancer than any other country during the...

Clinical breast exams are no longer routinely recommended for women at average risk of breast cancer, according to new Canadian guideline...

The largest cancer study in Canadian history got underway this week in New Brunswick, just as the disease has become the leading cause of...

TORONTO - Men with prostate cancer that has spread to local surrounding tissues live longer and are less likely to die of the high-risk disease if tre...

People who've received a kidney, liver, lung or heart transplant may have double the risk of developing cancer compared with the general population, b...

OTTAWA - A new report says cancer and heart disease were responsible for just over half of Canada's 238,617 deaths in 2008.And Statistics Canada repor...

The experience of chronic suffering is difficult to convey in clinical settings and language, but it can be rendered more approachable via a combination of creative techniques. The 'medical humanities' movement is following up on what the world of medical comics can tell us about human experience.

When it comes to lowering your cancer risk, there's no shortage of confusing information -- in our everyday lives, we're surrounded by items like coff...