By Sarah Avery
A virus known to cause cervical cancer in women is increasingly being identified in head and neck cancers, leading to suspicion that the route of infection may be...
Noor Javed
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario has ordered a Toronto company to pay $20,000 to a woman who was fired after she revealed she had breast cancer.
Sheryl Ubelacker
An experimental drug designed to attack breast cancer cells caused by BRCA mutation appears to show some promise in arresting the growth of tumours, researchers...
By Thomas H. Maugh
An experimental drug called eribulin prolongs survival by an average of about 2.5 months in women whose breast cancer has proved resistant to other forms of...
Debra Black
An immunologist believes he can develop a breast-cancer vaccine that prevents rather than treats the disease.
Antonia Zerbisias
A picture is worth a thousand words. A thousand pictures is ... a stunning black-and-white collection of photos about life and love with cancer.
Megan Ogilvie
The number of Ontario cancer patients seen by a radiation specialist within 14 days of referral increased from 57% in 2007 to 68% in 2009.
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Marilynn Marchione
Researchers may finally be closing in on a way to screen healthy women for ovarian cancer — a disease that rarely shows symptoms until it’s too late to cure.
Theresa Boyle
A new mother diagnosed with breast cancer while on parental leave has been denied an EI extension for sickness. She is appealing.
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Patty Winsa
A volunteer nanny service founded in Toronto helps mothers undergoing breast cancer treatment.
On Mother’s Day eve Mark Richardson wondered, driving his mother for cancer treatment, “Would this be the last time?"
Megan Ogilvie
Scientists from the Ontario Cancer Institute have found the ovarian hormone progesterone drives the production of stem cells in breast tissue.
Nicole Baute
Leanne Coppen the Toronto woman behind the witty, touching blog Living with Breast Cancer, died Tuesday at age 38.