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Know the signs: How men can check their testicles for cancer

Men who regularly check their testicles for lumps could spot cancer before it becomes severe. More than 2,000 men are diagnosed with...

HPV vaccine for boys 'will prevent thousands of cancers'

Health officials say the HPV vaccine for 12 to 13-year-old boys, starting after the summer, will prevent 29,000 cancers in UK men in the...

Obesity 'causes more cases of some cancers than smoking'

Obesity now causes more cases of four common cancers in the UK than smoking, according to a charity. Cancer Research UK says bowel,...

Targeted treatment for melanoma to be free on NHS

Hundreds of patients with a type of aggressive skin cancer will be offered a targeted therapy on the NHS in England and Wales, which...

Bowel cancer screening to start earlier at age 50 in England

Bowel cancer screening in England is to start earlier, at age 50, Public Health England has announced. It said evidence showed that...

HPV jab will be given to boys, government says

A jab that protects against a virus that causes cervical cancer will be given to boys aged 12 to 13 in England. The policy decision...

Prostate cancer immune system drug results could be 'spectacular'

Drugs that boost the immune system have saved the lives of some men with terminal prostate cancer, say doctors in the UK. The team at the...

Breast cancer: Test means fewer women will need chemotherapy

About 70% of women with the most common form of early stage breast cancer can be spared the "agony of chemotherapy", researchers say. It...

Singing 'no riskier than talking' for virus spread

More coronavirus-vaccine volunteers needed

Breast screening women in their 40s 'could save lives'

Cosmetic surgery booms 'after self-conscious workers stare at themselves on Zoom'

Most people in England to be offered flu vaccine

Patients will be prescribed walks in the great outdoors on the NHS

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