Sir Richard Doll, the epidemiologist who discovered the link between smoking and lung cancer in the 1960s, will this week warn that children living near electricity power lines are at an increased risk from leukaemia.
The idea that a lack of methyl on the DNA can lead to human cancer is still just a hypothesis, and in any case oncologists have no drugs that can correct genome-wide undermethylation.
Enjoying an iced coffee? Better skip dinner or hit the gym afterwards, with cancer charity warning that some iced coffees contain as many calories as a hot dinner.
In the case of oestrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer, the genetic analysis has not yet gone so far as to be able to say with certainty which drug will produce the best result for a given individual...
A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.