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?"

Joan Swift could fill a small room with her accolades.

Social media users are using hashtags like #sunburnart and #tantattoo to show off their "artistic" sunburns to the world.

After being diagnosed with cancer, Tracy Judd understood how something that seems as minor as applying some makeup can mean so much.

A poignant charity drive in the UK claims it will be, yet sceptical doctors warn women that exercise and healthy diet are as vital as ever.

An active ingredient in a cream used to treat head lice and scabies has been linked to causing cancer and will be withdrawn from sale in New Zealand.

A Kapiti couple in their 90s who were married for 67 years died within two hours of one another in the same rest-home room.

A study has found smoking can almost double the risk of prostate cancer returning after surgery, with ex-smokers also at greater risk of recurring cancer.

Common chemicals we encounter every day may combine in the human body to cause the development of cancer, scientists have revealed.

A Kiwi scientist is behind technology that could help a major pharmaceutical company make a remarkable cancer breakthrough.

A Kiwi professor has developed a new treatment which may be the answer to helping those diagnosed with asbestos lung cancer.

A Kiwi professor has developed a new treatment which may be the answer to helping those diagnosed with the incurable disease: asbestos lung cancer.

Ryan Tamatea, who is the seventh member in three generations of his extended family to be diagnosed with bowel cancer, might not live long enough to meet his new baby.