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(C) Raymonds Press Agency 22.07.2008, 14:55

Cancer boy ‘weds’ sweetheart before dying

An eight-year-old boy suffering from leukaemia ‘married’ his school sweetheart hours before succumbing to the disease, reports the UK’s Daily Mail. Little Reece Fleming fulfilled a dream by saying ‘I do’ to the love of his life in a mock ceremony before h

02.10.2008, 14:43

Beating cancer on a daily basis

RT brings you an uncut footage of a routine face oncotomy operation in the Moscow region’s cancer detection center in the city of Balashikha.

21.10.2008, 06:02

The bleak plight of child cancer victims

Health campaigners have hit out at the poor quality of cancer care for children in Russia and are demanding improvements to bring it up to international standards. The disease kills hundreds of children every year in the country, with the survival rate of

Radiologist assessing mammogram 16.12.2008, 06:26

Cancer’s death grip

Almost eight million people around the world will become victims of cancer this year, and a World Health Organisation report says by 2010 it will be the world's top killer, claiming more lives than AIDS and heart disease. It is already the second leading

Russia launches new fight against cancer

Published: 08 November, 2008, 06:58


After heart problems, cancer is the second highest killer in Russia. Last year alone, it claimed almost 300,000 lives – the cancer mortality rate in the country is 30 per cent higher than in the EU. And now, the Russian government is introducin

 
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