Lester diagnosed with cancer
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The Red Sox announced yesterday that Jon Lester, 22, had been diagnosed with a rare form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a blood cancer, and will begin treatment in the coming week.
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The emotional return to the Red Sox was all well and good for Jon Lester, but the cancer-beating lefthander needed some tweaks after six inconsistent starts. So the Red Sox sent him down to Double A Portland for a start, and he returned yesterday afternoon with something the big club hadn't seen before.
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Director Anurag Bose was been diagnosed with blood cancer.
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British singer and actress Marianne   Faithfull has been diagnosed with breast cancer but expects to   make a full recovery, her publicist said on Thursday.
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A Virginia teenage cancer patient appears to be improving less than a month after he won a court fight to forgo chemotherapy and seek alternative treatments, his doctor said Friday.
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British singer and actress Marianne  Faithfull has been diagnosed with breast cancer but expects to  make a full recovery, her publicist said on Thursday.
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The wife of John Kerry&#39;s presidential running mate John Edwards has been diagnosed with cancer. Elizabeth Edwards learned she has breast cancer on the same day her husband and Mr Kerry conceded the race for the White House.
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If you have a shred of humanity, watching Jon Lester take a major league mound for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer in late August of 2006 and win a 6-2 decision over a tough Cleveland Indians lineup last night had to tug at the heartstrings.
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When he pitches tonight in Cleveland, 23-year-old lefthander Jon Lester will be returning to the Red Sox exactly a year after he pitched for the Sox for the first time in his home state of Washington. It was on the team's second trip to Seattle, a month later, that Lester went to see an uncle who was a doctor, setting ...
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In his first major league start since being found to have a treatable form of lymphoma last year, Jon Lester made a dramatic and effective return to the Boston Red Soxâ rotation.
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The type of treatment Chief Justice William Rehnquist is getting may be indicate he&#39;s suffering from a serious type of cancer.
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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A source with direct knowledge of Jon Lester's medical condition said yesterday that Lester's latest CT scan was clean and his cancer seems to be in remission, so the 22-year-old lefthander expects to be in spring training with the Red Sox in 2007.
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It looked bad for Chuck Fleming -- lung cancer had spread through his body. But his oncologist decided to try using a "gene chip" to see which out of a laundry list of chemotherapy options might work best.
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BOISE, Idaho, Feb. 5  /PRNewswire/ -- Chance Harrington, a thriving sixteen year-old who explodes as a tight end on the football field, was recently diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer during a routine football physical.
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This lung cancer drug is not as effective as once hoped.
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Treatment with a derivative of vitamin A called retinoic acid may help to cut former smokers' risk of lung cancer.
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He's endured the toughest four months of his life, so it was about time Joe Andruzzi received some good news. It came last Monday when a test revealed the aggressive form of cancer he's been fighting - Burkitt's lymphoma - is in remission.