On their feet, fighting cancer
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Wearing a bib reading &quot;Feisty Fighting Franci,&quot; breast cancer combatant Franci Finkelstein propelled herself across the finish line of yesterday&#39;s Run for the Cure with tears in her eyes, raising clasped hands in the air with her friends.
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ORANGE CITY, IowaâThere may need to be a lot of steps taken before a cure is found for breast cancer, but Linda Feikema is doing her part, literally.
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This month is Breast Cancer Awareness month and in the Tri-state the first annual &quot;Gift of Life&quot; Block Walk kicked off Saturday morning in Lincoln Heights.
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Pia Awal was in the midst of planning her October wedding when a routine doctor's visit brought devastating news. After more than a year of remission, her cancer was back. Now mid-October marks a different kind of milestone &#151; the time by which doctors say Awal, who has acute myelogenous leukemia, must receive a lifesaving stem cell, or bone marrow, transplant.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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Marian C. Bennett found more than cancer when she discovered a lump in her breast five years ago. She found a cause she thought was worth fighting for.
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Instead of using surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation, researchers from the National Institutes of Health are finding so-far limited but inspiring success in a new approach for fighting cancer, using the immune system to attack the tumors the way it would a cold or flu.
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(HealthDay News) - Not everyone recovering from cancer is physically or mentally able to exercise.
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A breast cancer diagnosis can be devastating and scary. We have the story of two women who are cancer survivors and how they&#39;ve helped each other through a special program at Desert Regional Medical Center.
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Active people have cells that look younger on a molecular level than those of couch potatoes.
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A new study finds that cancer casts a long shadow on the lives of survivors, harming their ability to work and perform daily chores more than a decade after diagnosis.
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In the battle against cancer, saving two patients out of 17 may seem modest enough. But researchers see hope that using genetically altered immune cells to attack tumors -- as was done in this study -- may hold the key to eventually defeating various cancers.
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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer cases and cancer deaths around the world, claiming 1.3 million lives each year.
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TUESDAY, Aug. 31 (HealthDayNews) -- People who have survived cancer struggle with a lower quality of life, loss of productivity and more health limitations than those who never had the disease, researchers report.
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A new cancer care centre is to be built using funds raised by women who powerwalked wearing decorated bras.
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When it comes to funding the search for a cure for breast cancer, there&#39;s no shortage of Londoners willing to stand up and be counted.
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For several of the 2008 presidential candidates, cancer has had a very immediate impact.