Fast-Track Attacks on Cancer Accelerate Hopes
Chemotherapy and radiation failed to thwart Erika Hurwitz’s rare cancer of white blood cells. So her doctors offered her another option, a drug for melanoma. The result was astonishing. Within…
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Decline in smoking rates could increase deaths from lung cancer
Current U.S. Preventive Services Task Force guidelines recommend annual low-dose CT screening for adults age 55 to 80 who have smoked 30 pack-years (one pack a day for 30 years),…
Why One Woman With Lung Cancer Photographed Herself Every Day For A Year
In 2013, Jennifer Glass was diagnosed with stage IIIB lung cancer. To help document her life, she took a photo every day and then, in March 2014, she set it…
Oliver Sacks On Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
a few weeks ago I learned that I have multiple metastases in the liver. Nine years ago it was discovered that I had a rare tumor of the eye, an…
Scientists Shed Light on Circuits That Control Genes
More than 200 scientists working on an ambitious federal project have begun to understand the complicated system of switches that regulates genes, turning some on and others off, making some…
Beloved Mexican soap actress Lorena Rojas dies after battle with cancer
She had been fighting cancer since 2008. That year, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In 2013, after the tumor metastasized to others parts of her body, she told Mexican…
A Cancer Cluster Is Tough to Prove
George Johnson RAW DATA Last month, thousands of Marines and their families were blocked in federal court from pursuing their claim that the government had given them cancer. The decision,…
David Carr, Times Columnist, Had Lung Cancer, Autopsy Finds
David Carr, the New York Times media columnist who died unexpectedly Thursday night, had been suffering from lung cancer, and died of complications from the disease, according to the results…
Smoking Causes More Kinds Of Deaths Than We Ever Thought
Breast cancer, prostate cancer, and even routine infections. A new report ties these and other maladies to smoking and says an additional 60,000 to 120,000 deaths each year in the…
Smoking’s Health Toll Worse Than Previously Thought, Study Says
However bad you thought smoking was, it’s even worse. A new study adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in the…
When Can I Stop Having Mammograms? From Dr. Christiane Northrup (VIDEO)
If there’s no history of breast cancer in your family, how often should you have a mammogram? According to Dr. Christiane Northrup, the process of having a mammogram exposes you…
Rep. Alan Nunnelee dead at 56
The Republican congressman from Mississippi was 56-years-old and died after a battle with brain cancer. He had been diagnosed with a brain tumor in the spring. – CNN’s Jeremy Diamond…
Mississippi Rep. Alan Nunnelee Dies At Age 56 After Battle With Cancer
Mississippi Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R) died Friday at age 56 after a battle with cancer. – Sabrina Siddiqui contributed to this report.
Why You Should Stop Calling Thyroid Cancer ‘Good Cancer’
A thyroid cancer diagnosis has a strange reputation: It’s cancer, but with a near 100 percent survival rate when caught in the early stages, it’s one of the “good” cancers,…
I Fell In Love With A Dying Woman
Mike Hughes fell in love with Carly four months before she died. Carly Hughes (they have the same last name) was just 23 when she was diagnosed with gastric-esophageal cancer….
Time to change how we think about cancer
One of the most common misconceptions about cancer is that it is one disease. Most people think of cancer as something that will automatically kill you if left alone, but…
Supporters Shave Heads, Post #NoHairSelfies For World Cancer Day
Cancer advocates are letting their hair down, but they’re not getting too comfortable. Wednesday marks World Cancer Day, the advocacy event that raises awareness and funds for organizations that support…
Everyday Things You Can Do To Lower Your Cancer Risk
This year, more than 1.5 million people are estimated to be diagnosed with cancer. Even more grim is the fact that half of cancer deaths stem from preventable causes. In…
The Amazing Thing That Happens When Doctors And Nurses Meditate
www.washingtonpost.com: Each year, 100,000 people die from infections they picked up in the hospital. These are completely preventable diseases, caused by human error. But they result in as many annual deaths as AIDS,…
Mom Says Her Daughter Is Lying About Cancer (VIDEO)
“The moment I heard the word ‘cancer,’ my world just stopped,” says Lynn, 30, who claims she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, which causes her excruciating pain. “I feel like…
Fundraising campaign raises more than $452K for disabled mugging victim
An assailant shoved Alan Barnes, 67who is just four feet six inches tall and partially blindto the ground and demanded he hand over his money in Gateshead, a town in…
Carl Djerassi, Creator Of Birth Control Pill, Dead At 91
Carl Djerassi, the chemist widely considered the father of the birth control pill, has died. Djerrasi died of complications of cancer Friday in his San Francisco home, Stanford University spokesman…
In the Way Cancer Cells Work Together, a Possible Tool for Their Demise
Carl Zimmer MATTER A tumor, as strange as it may sound, is a little society. The cancer cells that make it up cooperate with one another, and together they thrive….
Lipstick-Smearing Selfies Aim To Raise Awareness For Cervical Cancer In The UK
According to doctors, regular pap smears are the best way to detect cervical cancer. Alarmingly, one in three women between the ages of 25 and 29 in the United Kingdom…
Adam Koessler Arrested For Giving Cannabis Oil To Dying 2-Year-Old Daughter
When Adam Koessler’s 2-year-old daughter was given a 50/50 chance of surviving stage 4 neuroblastoma cancer, he wanted to do everything in his power to boost those chances. So he…
Is proton therapy the ‘magic bullet’ for cancer?
Successful methods such as chemotherapy work by killing the cancer cells, but they also destroy healthy tissue. Health practitioners have been searching for a magic bullet that goes straight to…
Coffee May Cut Melanoma Risk
Researchers used health and dietary data on 447,357 non-Hispanic whites ages 50 to 71 who were cancer free at the start of the study and followed them for an average…
J.K. Rowling challenges Rupert Murdoch’s Muslim blame game
The News Corp. CEO ignited controversy on Friday with a series of tweets about Islam and jihad. He started with the tweet, “Maybe most Moslems peaceful, but until they recognize…
Teen’s forced chemo may continue, Connecticut court rules
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the state may continue to force a teenager to undergo chemotherapy treatments that could save her life. The court said that attorneys for…
Scientists: Random gene mutations primary cause of most cancer
That’s bad luckand it’s the primary cause of most cancer cases, says a Johns Hopkins Medicine research study. Roughly two-thirds of cancers in adults can be attributed to random mutations…