UBC's TRIUMF facility is gearing up to produce actinium-225, a rare radioisotope that early research shows could have a powerful effect fighting cancer.

Every three months, Dylan Fournier is left wondering if he’ll be cut off from the cancer treatment he needs to survive.

A new case report found traces of radioactive cancer drugs in a crematorium worker's urine.

The winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine say they expect substantial advances toward treating cancer in the next several decades, although it is unlikely the disease could be eradicated.

Patients and families of patients have received letters advising that about 10 per cent of the medication dose was left in the IV tubing during the administration process. 

Issues arose over tubings used to administer three types of drugs.

In Ontario, cancer drugs administered in hospitals are free but take-home drugs often have a cost.

U.S. prosecutors say Canada Drugs’ business model is based entirely on illegally importing unapproved and misbranded drugs not just from Canada, but from all over the world.

Canada Drugs was charged with selling counterfeit cancer drugs online over a three-year period ending in 2012.

Researchers are calling their new findings a "complete game changer."