People with a parent, sibling or child affected by blood cancer are more likely to be diagnosed with the disease, a new study has shown.

A new panel of genes could pick out men at highest risk of developing prostate cancer and pick out those already diagnosed who are likely to have particularly aggressive forms of the disease, a large-scale genetic analysis has found.

A ring of proteins that holds our chromosomes together as they replicate also plays a vital role in stopping DNA damage from leading to cancer, according to new research.