Scientists have developed a new genetic test that they believe could help diagnose oesophageal cancer up to eight years before symptoms appear in people at a high risk of the disease.
Researchers from University College London have found that in around one in six cases of (17 percent) breast cancer the first symptoms that present are not a lump in the breast.
Substantial weight gain over years raises the risk of obesity-related cancers in men by 50 percent and in women by almost 20 percent, according to new data presented at the National Cancer Research Institute’s (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool, UK.