cancer

Veteran Nollywood actor, Ola Omonitan popularly known as Ajimajasan, died on Thursday after a prolonged battle with a heart-related ailment and cancer. Ajimajasan died yesterday, at the age of 80, after a long battle with an enlarged…

Kelly Val Smith “created a fanciful world” to scam tens of thousands of dollars from her family and friends over a fake cancer diagnosis and other lies. The Adelaide woman told her victims she had ovarian cancer, that her son needed a…

Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, revealed on Monday he is in a new battle with cancer. Allen said in a tweet and at his website that non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma he fought into remission…

- In July, the American Journal of Transplantation revealed an extraordinary discovery - The discovery proved that organ transplants can pass certain infectious diseases to recipients and in rare cases, even cancer - The story…

BBC presenter Rachael Bland has died at the age of 40, almost two years after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Bland was a familiar voice on Radio 5 Live as a newsreader and presenter. She has also documented her life with the…

US Senator and former presidential candidate, John McCain, has died at age 81 after a year long battle with brain cancer,  just a few days after it was announced that he had decided to stop medical treatment. McCain, a former Vietnam…

Nigerian woman, Anigala Ifeyinwa, took to her Facebook page to share the amazing story of how she battled cancer and won. At the time she was undergoing chemotherapy, the doctors told her she may never be able to conceive again. Unknown…

Nigeria has the worst cancer mortality rate in Africa as four out of every five patients die from the ailment, according to recent statistics. A foremost consultant oncologist and radiotherapist at the University of Nigeria College of…

People with stage III colon cancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of cancer recurrence and mortality than those who don’t, according to a new, large study led by researchers at Yale Cancer Center. The findings…

Having lost unmarried child to brain tumour two years ago, city-based teacher takes help of surrogacy to bring him back. The grieving mother who wanted to be artificially inseminated with her dead son’s sperm now has twins. In an…

Gov. Ayo Fayose's nephew, Dignified Sorinolu-Bimpe, shared this inspiring video of his mom, Sorinolu Bimpe, just two weeks before she died of breast cancer a few years ago. Watch the video below: https://www.instagram.com/p/BfIzuK4A_Jn…

Lari White, a soulful singer who made her presence known in the Country Music industry as a singer, songwriter and also as a producer has passed away at the age of 52 after a brief battle with cancer. Born May 13, 1965 in Dunedin,…

- Singer Banky W has just shared his experience battling a rare strain of skin cancer - The singer/actor said he had the first two surgeries over 10 years ago but the cancer resurfaced again - In a lengthy Instagram post, he thanks God,…

Drinking very hot beverages “probably” causes cancer of the oesophagus, the UN’s cancer agency said Wednesday, while lifting suspicion from coffee and the herbal drink mate if consumed at “normal serving temperatures”. “These results…

Eating carrots could slash a woman’s chances of developing certain types of breast cancer by up to 60 per cent, results of a research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition suggests. The research shows that women who…