More people survive certain types of cancer after treatment in Italy than in any other European country, according to a new EU report on Italian healthcare.
Italy's health minister has taken the unusual step of criticizing national broadcaster Rai's coverage of a vaccine against a cancer-causing virus, sparking a row about media freedom and misinformation.
The rate of cancer among children in Taranto, southern Italy - home to the Ilva steel plant - is 30 percent higher than the national average, the first report into cancer rates in the region shows.
US Vice President Joe Biden won Pope Francis's backing Friday in his battle for research advances in curing cancer to be made available to everyone, as he brought his "Moonshot" campaign to the Vatican.
The burning of toxic waste by the local mafia is behind the above-average number of deaths and cancer cases among residents in and around Naples, a health survey has confirmed.
Italy saw a strong rise in five-year cancer survival rates from 1995 to 2009, but poorer countries are missing out on the benefits of improved treatment methods, a major new global study shows.
The number of children suffering from cancer in Italy's "Land of Fires", an area where toxic waste has been dumped by the mafia, is significantly higher than elsewhere in the country, a new study has found.
A woman in the northern Italian town of Rimini is suing her local health authority for €800,000 ($1.1 million) after she discovered she had undergone months of grueling cancer treatment on the wrong breast.
A 43-year-old woman from the northern Italian city of Treviso waited almost a month for a letter telling her she has cancer because of "staff shortages" at the local post office and a "heavy workload over Christmas".
A 20-year-old woman from Salerno in the southern Italian region of Campania is reported to have been cured of cancer after touching a statue of the Virgin Mary.
Anger is boiling over near Naples after revelations about toxic mafia dumps blamed for rising cancer rates that have prompted accusations the state is ignoring a vast public health crisis.
An investigation has been launched into electronics company Olivetti, over claims that asbestos exposure in one of the company's factories caused the deaths of 20 workers.
