John Laughlin, Leader in Radiation Cancer Care, Dies at 86
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Dr. John S. Laughlin was a medical physicist and educator who was an early leader in the use of radiation to diagnose and treat cancers.
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Dr. Judah Folkman, a giant of cancer  research who discovered that tumors generate a network of tiny  blood vessels to nourish themselves, has died at the age of 74,  Harvard Medical School said on Tuesday.
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Adm. William Crowe, former chairman of the U.S. Joints Chiefs of Staff, died on Thursday at Bethesda Naval Hospital at 82, the U.S. Navy said.
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LOS ANGELES : Actor Howard Keel, a baritone who brought popular Broadway musicals to the silver screen in the 1950s and later starred in the television drama &quot;Dallas&quot; in the 1980s, died Sunday of colon cancer, US media reported.
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NPR.org, October 25, 2004 Â· US Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, 80, spent the weekend at the Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland for treatment of thyroid cancer.
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Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Hamill said in a statement Friday that she is being treated at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. The prognosis is favorable, but the 51-year-old Hamill said she will miss some of the "Broadway on Ice" tour while she is having treatment.
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The age of nuclear medicine dawns when a 28-year-old leukemia patient becomes the first person to be treated using a radioactive isotope.
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Howard Keel, musical and television star died Sunday at his home in Palm Desert, California, from colon cancer, he was 85. Born Harold Clifford Leek, the tall and muscular baritone starred in several major
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Photos through the years of PC World's long-serving Test Center director, who died last week of cancer.
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Man's best friend could also be a  lifesaver in the fight against cancer.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans  saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79  after a long battle with emphysema.
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Legendary rock drummer and Hall of Fame  inductee Jim Capaldi died on Friday after a brief fight with  stomach cancer, his publicist said.
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A man diagnosed with terminal lung cancer who was planning to host his own living wake has died.
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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care, has died. She was 78.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of  U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show"  for nearly 30 years, died on Sunday at age 79 after a long  battle with emphysema.
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Thomas M. Donahue, one of the country&#39;s leading space and planetary scientists and a pioneer of space exploration, died Saturday of complications following heart surgery.
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Howard Keel, star of post-war US musicals, and later in the hit television series Dallas, dies of cancer.