Roger Kerr, who headed the NZ Business Roundtable for 25 years, has died peacefully at home after a year-long battle with metastatic melanoma.

Business Roundtable executive director Roger Kerr died after a year-long battle with skin cancer on October 28, 2011. We look back on his 66 years.

Jesse Bessant's parents hold on to the hope that his brain problems may be caused by an infection.

Bachelors are twice as likely to die of cancer compared with married men, a study has found.

A Tauranga man will end his life with a huge party where everyone will get the chance to insult, embarrass and humiliate him.

Dunedin-based company Pacific Edge says it has been awarded a patent in Singapore for its colorectal cancer prognostic technology.

A woman who blames her skin cancer on being burned by a sunbed wants the Government to regulate the beauty therapy.

Study finds fault in a gene that normally helps the body repair its DNA increases a woman's risk of ovarian cancer six-fold.