New Zealand has one of the highest death rates from cancer in the Asia-Pacific region, a report shows.

With the price of cigarettes set to go up again on New Years’ Day, a new survey will look at how smokers are planning to cope with the hikes.

Women with farming and industry jobs have an increased chance of developing breast cancer, a new study has shown.

Survey finds 22 per cent of women feel they have stronger relationship with girlfriends than their partners.

Peter Williams is one of this country's toughest defence lawyers. But today he prefers to be known as an author, poet, sailor and prison reformer.

Terminally ill Troylane Tetai didn't have much time left, and he wanted to use the little he had to fish. But his life came to an end sooner than anyone was expecting.

A searingly honest account of his life by an NZ-based advertising boss who died of cancer recently is going viral on the internet.

Concerns have been raised about "pinkwashing" and the commodification of breast cancer in the United States, writes Donna Wyatt.

A positive pregnancy test - taken by a man as a gag - led him to find out he had testicular cancer.

When four-year-old Cormac was diagnosed with leukaemia in April the Peppers found themselves in a world of regular hospital visits and now, a lot of bush-walking.

The number of patients waiting for skin cancer surgery at Dunedin Hospital increased 64 per cent in the past year, while Southland Hospital halved its waiting list.

Results of a large study unveiled in Auckland show a link between women with fertility problems and an increased risk of cancer in their children.

New Zealand cricket great Martin Crowe says his fight against cancer is "a comeback worth doing".