Winning the (propaganda) war on cancer
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Where do you bury the survivors? A couple of years ago, the American Cancer Society gaily reported that cancer survival rates have been improving dramatically and steadily. A few weeks ago, Cancer Research UK announced a similarly sunny prognosis for the public at large: UK survival rates have doubled in 30 years. Yes, we are all "surviving" longer with cancer, the experts can assure us.â¦
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MONDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they&#39;ve developed a tumor &quot;paint&quot; that illuminates cancerous cells and help surgeons spot the borders of tumors.
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Cancer was the biotech's biggest success story. Now to keep growing, it needs to branch out.
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Here&#39;s the good news from the National Cancer Institute. A new study finds those foods can decrease the risk of cardiovascular disease, unfortunately it doesn&#39;t decrease the risk of cancer.
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For prostate cancer, a tomato a day has been shown to keep the doctor away. And now the compound responsible has been found highly effective at inhibiting the growth of existing tumors, even in
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By Tampone, Kevin  CICERO - Cancer research is daunting for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the massive number of substances that might be effective in future drugs.
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THIS summer marks the third anniversary of President Bush&#39;s announcement of his policy on stem cell research. In the intervening years, the subject has become a polarizing flash point for American politics and a focal point for the presidential campaign.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month is hard to miss. Its pink promotions are so pervasive during October that Halloween&#39;s orange-and-black motifs sometimes pale.
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Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants.
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Lance Armstrong challenged the candidates to make cancer a priority. Four committed to doubling. What will the GOP do? The birth of a new campaign benchmark.
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SATURDAY, Feb. 17 (HealthDay News) -- The American Cancer Society has rolled out its new Great American Health Challenge, a campaign to educate Americans about cutting their cancer risk.
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New studies are raising questions about whether drugs that have been used by millions of cancer patients might actually be harming them.
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When Diana Menendez was diagnosed with Hodgkin&#39;s disease in 1968 at age 8, doctors weren&#39;t sure they could cure her. So they hit her cancer with everything they had: high-dose radiation and four years of chemotherapy.
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By The Associated Press. It sounded like a pretty good deal to Ken Doerflinger: a government study offering to examine him from head to toe for signs of cancer.
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Rising tobacco use and poverty will  fuel cancer across the developing world, more than doubling the  number of new cases to 27 million by 2050, experts predicted on  Thursday.
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For several of the 2008 presidential candidates, cancer has had a very immediate impact.
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Scientists have found a way to prevent bowel cancer from growing.