A Crazily Inspiring Book About Cancer
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Diagnosed with stage 4 cancer nearly five years ago, Kris Carr hit her âzero point,â but then came back swinging and is telling her tale first in a movie and now in a dazzling book.
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Doctors in Botswana, already battling one of the highest levels of HIV per capita in the world, are being overwhelmed by a dramatic rise in cancer cases as a result of the epidemic.
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Rejection might not mean the end of the road for this cancer treatment.
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Cancer survival rates for people 50 to 85 are increasing at a faster rate than for any other age group, but survivors of all ages - including a former New York congresswoman - yesterday said
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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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Cancer can really mess up a person's life, even years after he or she has beaten the disease, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
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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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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so.
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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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The ballooning cost of cancer treatment offers an example of how difficult it may be to rein in the nationâs runaway health care spending.
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Doctor's View: A frightened cancer patient inadvertently heard terrible news. Anesthesia erased her memory. It was a snap decision  -  and a compassionate one. But was it right?
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The number of mutated genes driving cancer development is greater than previously thought, research shows.
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Toxic chemicals don't just hurt us in big doses. An environmental oncologist argues that myriad tiny amounts of cancer-causing agents in our environment--and even in our shampoo--can make us sick.
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Parents who lost a son to cancer have built a website using their own funds to help other patients make sense of complicated treatment information. By Kristen Philipkoski.
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The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer.
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When teenager Nicole Agostino was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last year, the hospital where she was treated was full of children and coloring books.