Cancer

What it is

Cancer is not one disease but several hundred, grouped by the tissue where abnormal cells start dividing without control. Coverage on Alivewire spans the whole field: screening programmes and their false alarms, new targeted and immune therapies, survivorship, and the steady stream of population studies linking diet, alcohol, weight and exercise to risk. Treatment advances are real but usually incremental, and the headline figures almost always describe a narrow patient group.

Written by the Alivewire editors from the coverage below, 4d ago. Not medical advice; how the ratings work.