A young girl who is suffering from cancer was treated to a special birthday party at Auckland's Ronald McDonald House this morning.

Friends and workmates are rallying around a cop and young mum, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer after previously surviving melanoma.

Kiwi twins fighting a rare cancer will tomorrow celebrate the first birthday their parents feared they would never see.

Cancer treatments could be more effective when they are combined with aspirin, a British study has suggested.

A Chinese entrepreneur who suffers from cancer will make a generous $10 million donation towards research into the deadly disease.

My catch phrase is, "I'm not one to gossip, but ... " because that's what people always say to me.

Skyla was excited to start school this year. Instead she's undergoing 45 days of radiotherapy treatment at Starship Hospital.

When Rose Cosgrove was diagnosed with breast cancer she became the fourth sister in her family to face the disease.

Here's some celebrities who have gone public with their battle in the bid to save others.

Screening for any cancer is a big decision and the case needs to be compelling. Only when it is should a national programme proceed.

"Women with a family history of breast cancer, should consider reducing their alcohol intake to below recommended limits, or even abstaining altogether."

Drinking coffee could be the key to boosting survival rates among bowel cancer patients, according to researchers.

Dr Andrew Wood has won many battles in his war against child cancer, but says it's those he has lost now driving him towards new treatments.

After a cancer diagnosis left her identical twin unable to carry another child, one woman offered up her own body for the job in the ultimate act of sisterly love.

Pacific Edge, the maker of non-invasive bladder cancer tests, has won US regulatory approval to commercially process test samples from its latest cancer detecting product at its Dunedin....

The findings of a new study could be used to help stop women from developing breast cancer at all, British researchers say.

Researchers found a class of inexpensive, existing generic called aromatase inhibitors, which suppress hormones, reduce recurrence rates by 30 per cent as compared with tamoxifen.

John Connolly was described as a hero by Judith Collins, the Police Minister at the time at the attack on him.

An Auckland woman has organised a bake-a-thon to pass on random acts of kindness to people in need.

Women aged 50-plus urged to do at least 5 hours a week of exercise to help reduce the risk of breast cancer.

Women given chemotherapy were more than twice as likely to have gained at least 5kg within five years than those who were cancer free.

Those who are seated for more than six hours a day are more likely to suffer cancers, particularly of the breast, ovaries and bone marrow, researchers have found.

When photographs showed a ‘golden glow’ in her 16-week-old son’s eye, Sarah Bowers took him to see the doctor as soon as possible.

"We're thinking we've got six weeks before the therapy starts - do we try to have [a baby] before that?"

We've all had the disconcerting experience of being told, often by someone who read it in Reader's Digest, that something we take for granted can cause cancer.

Tax specialist Iain Craig found a surprise upside to a cancer scare, even in his work.

Joan Swift could fill a small room with her accolades.