Most cases of cancer are a result of avoidable factors such as toxic chemicals and radiation, new study suggests.

In most families, dinner table conversation is restricted to what happened at school or whether homework has been completed.

Almost $50,000 has been donated to help the family of an Auckland mum who found out she had aggressive and likely incurable cancer days after her first baby was born.

Officials warned leukaemia patient he would lose his benefit.

Lecretia Seales is our New Zealander of the Year because of what she did in the last act of her life. She was a private person who stepped into the limelight to ask the courts to give her the right to die. She has gone now but may have left her legacy.

Sentenced to death, a lawyer set out to gain the right to choose how she would die.

Search for New Zealander of Year recalls ethical dilemma of terminally-ill lawyer's legal battle for right to end her own life.

A Kiwi couple who married after a grim cancer diagnosis have arrived in Australia for treatment, while friends care for their newborn son.

Sir Douglas Myers is spending tens of thousands of dollars every month on chemotherapy drugs, including the new wonder drug Keytruda.

A young woman is "stoked" to be able to farewell her old self, "the cancer patient", after receiving a long awaited breast reconstruction.

John Key has been inspired by a heart-wrenching speech given by a Christchurch student just days after he was diagnosed with cancer.

The Government is set to fund a new drug for melanoma despite a "low priority" ranking by Pharmac, one of its MPs has hinted.

A campaign for state funding of a costly new drug for melanoma has been derailed by a "low priority" ranking at Pharmac.

After a grave cancer diagnosis, a Gisborne woman has delivered her baby boy today.

The new drug, Keytruda, hailed as a historic step forward in the treatment of advanced melanoma, has been given only a low priority for taxpayer funding.

An expectant mother who wed after a grim cancer diagnosis is due to give birth today - and then must travel to Australia without her newborn for treatment.

More than 2500 people from across the country painted the town yellow in a charity walk through the streets of Auckland last night.

Three of the Hastings City Assist team grew beards especially to have them shaved off at the Hastings Night Market, to raise funds for Child Cancer Foundation. Video by Duncan Brown

Richmond Villeran put his stomach pains down to his workouts at the gym. But after a week, and with his stomach growing, he knew something was wrong.

Pigeons are as good as human experts at recognising the signs of breast cancer in tissue samples and mammograms, according to a study.

A test that spots one of the deadliest female cancers with unprecedented accuracy has been developed by scientists.

Inspired by two friends' battles with cancer, an Auckland woman has decided to conquer the country - by bike.

This week's alarming health headlines are about new research showing vegetable oils release toxic chemicals when heated, which cause cancer.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in New Zealand but a large number of Kiwis are still failing to be sun-smart in the summer months.

7-year-old Kate Diprose loves art and is now a published illustrator.

Sharon McKay knows her racehorse Franco Nelson has over 100 years of history against him in today's $750,000 New Zealand Trotting Cup in Christchurch.

COMMENT: New Zealand spends less per capita on healthcare than Australia, and that's not good enough, writes Evangelia Henderson

Emma Crowley was in the shower, shaving her right armpit, when she made the alarming discovery that may have saved her life.