Ablation is approved for inoperable liver tumors and painful bone tumors, and doctors are also testing it on kidney tumors, lung tumors and even breast cancers.

FORBES: Tumor Zappers

In addition to a research collaboration with UNC (to discover how specific particle properties determine distribution through the body), the company is also developing nano-enabled treatments for lung, breast and prostate cancers.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The drug is Pfizer's first big entry into the market for targeted cancer drugs, and is being tested in breast, colorectal, and lung cancers.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In its labs is the industry's biggest batch of experimental cancer drugs, 18 potential medicines targeting pancreatic, breast and lung cancers.

FORBES: Magazine Article

In its labs is the industry's biggest batch of experimental cancer drugs, 18 potential medicines targeted against pancreatic, breast and lung cancers.

FORBES: Can Cancer Cure Pfizer?

They hope to hear within a month that America's Food and Drug Administration will let them use retroviruses to introduce genes that would treat more common tumours, such as breast, lung and liver cancers.

ECONOMIST: Gene therapy has been shown to work on cancer

It is focusing on breast, bowel and lung cancer, the three main cancers that affect Scots.

BBC: Cancer 'changes outlook on life'

Many seemed to contribute to the deadliest cancers, including tumors of the lung, breast and gut.

FORBES: Machine Gunner

Lung, colorectal, breast and prostate cancer make up nearly half of all cancers diagnosed in the United States.

CNN: More lives being saved: Cancer death rates drop 20%

They looked at cancer rates for the EU as a whole (27 member states as at 2007) and also in six individual countries - France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK - for all cancers, and, individually, for stomach, intestine, pancreas, lung, prostate, breast, uterus (including cervix) and leukaemias.

BBC: Lung cancer 'overtaking breast cancer in European women'