Drinking two large glasses of wine a day triples the risk of developing mouth cancer, a government campaign will warn.

This really does amuse me: America’s largest breast cancer advocacy group has been forced to make a self-abasing retraction of its plan to cut funding for Planned Parenthood following a huge outcry against the decision. Yes, yes, I know the politics. If you’re against breast cancer then you’re in favour of all sorts of wimmins’

Emmanuel Cooper, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a leading potter, who also became widely known as a writer, editor, critic, biographer, teacher, broadcaster, curator and campaigner for gay rights. His wide cultural and artistic interests and activities were pursued with a relentless energy and great entrepreneurial skill which made him a powerful advocate for the crafts and visual arts. ...

Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, responding the welfare debate in the House of Commons, said:

I never really thought I’d be giving interviews on the topic of poo, but that’s exactly what I was doing yesterday. It’s all part of a drive to encourage more people than ever before to spot the signs of bowel cancer. So on Monday I launched the Government’s first ever national bowel cancer awareness campaign,

The work and pensions secretary said Macmillan Cancer Support was wrong to claim 7,000 cancer patients would see their incomes fall by £94 a week from April.

Drudge has the story... Newt Gingrich's ex wife Marianne apparently has done a tell-all two hour interview with ABC's Brian Ross about her marriage to Gingrich. That would be wife number two, the one he was having an affair with when wife number one had cancer and the one he ditched while he was having an affair with number three, Callista. Talk about flip flopping! You had to know all a...

Iain Duncan Smith rejects suggestions by cancer charities that thousands of recovering patients could lose nearly £100 a week due to coalition welfare changes.

However, it could never happen, and not because I’m so enlightened, sensitive or any of the other euphemisms for “whining hippie” usually dumped on vegetarians. My conversion to flesh-eating couldn’t happen because, frankly, I’m not stupid enough. As in, I can read. Analysis of more than 6,000 pancreatic cancer cases published in the British Journal

Liam Byrne MP, Labour’s Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary, following the Government’s three defeats in the House of Lords this evening, including over plans to force cancer patients back into work before they have had the chance to recover, said: