In an innovative drive to raise health awareness in Taiwan, global multinational consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) yesterday launched the annual “Protecting Your Life in 6 Minutes” event, aligning with unlikely allies.

A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer, scientists reported Wednesday.

Emily Whitehead is kind of a big deal. At age 7, she is the only child to have beaten back leukemia with the help of a new treatment that turned her own immune cells into targeted cancer killers.

In the latest installment in the mammogram debate, a new study finds that getting a mammogram every other year instead of annually did not increase the risk of advanced breast cancer in women aged 50 to 74, even in women who use hormone therapy or have dense breasts, factors that increase a woman's cancer risk.

Patients with sleep apnea are much more likely to suffer malignant cerebroma than those without, according to a study released yesterday by a doctor at Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital.

Hualien District Agricultural Research and Extension Station said yesterday that it will produce a dietary supplement, using its newly developed variety of bitter gourd that is said to have strong anti-oxidant properties.

Procter & Gamble (P&G), a global multinational consumer goods company, yesterday took part in promoting the 6 Minutes Save a Life: Cervical Cancer Prevention Measures health campaign, which is aimed at reducing the high gynecological cancer fatality rate in Taiwan.

Flight attendants are at a higher risk of breast cancer due to being exposed to high levels of radiation, Wan Fang Hospital (萬芳醫院) announced yesterday.

The nation is critically shortchanging efforts to prevent new generations of Americans from getting breast cancer, including neglecting vital research into environmental factors, a major federal report released Tuesday said.

Less than half of all countries in the world have functioning plans to prevent cancer and provide treatment and care to cancer patients, the World Health Organization lamented Friday.