Cancer
In 2011, Brenda Schmitz, a woman suffering from ovarian cancer, asked a radio station for wish. Now, two years later, that wish has moved the community of Des Moines in Iowa, and hundreds around the world.
Angelo Merendino, an American photographer, posted a touching video that shows pictures taken during his wife Jennifer’s cancer passage until the day of her death.
A recent study reveals that electronic cigarettes are becoming more popular among teenagers as more than double say they have used e-cigarettes than in the previous year.
According to statistics, in 2012, 12,600 cases were diagnosed in children with cancer. The successful treatments against cancer were acute lymphoblastic leukemia with 90 percent of successful cases, while the nauroblastoma has a 70 to 80 percent success rate.
The aesthetically-disagreeable naked mole rat can live for more than 30 years and has never been observed with cancer. In fact, these creatures seem impervious to the ailment - why is that so?
Their lives were threatened, their dreams were on the verge of breaking and their health statuses were kept in suspense as millions of people across the continent followed their progress. But they won their battles against cancer and lived to inspire others. Latinos Post lists five stars who survived the difficult disease.
With high prices for some cancer medicines reaching upwards of $100,000 per year or more, a consortium of doctors have signed a letter in protest, saying the cost is too high and that pharmaceutical companies must work to make the life-saving drugs more affordable.
A team of scientists at Mount Sinai Medical Center have discovered a positive correlation between cancer rates and exposure to World Trade Center debris
A new study looks into the prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder in breast cancer patients.
Doctors at a British hospital are being sued by testicular cancer patient who claims the doctors botched his surgery and removed his healthy testicle.
A new study published in the April 2013 issue of the American Journal of Public Healh reveals that 3.5 percent of all cancer-related deaths in the U.S. were caused by alcohol consumption.
Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss has cancer and is being treated for it at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. The 79-year-old basketball-lifer has been in and out of the hospital in recent months and he may be near death. The Lakers figure is one of the most successful and popular sports executives in the U.S.
A shortage of the drug mechlorethamine has raised relapse rates among cancer patients afflicted with Hodgkin lymphoma, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine
In memory of her late grandmother, pop superstar Rihanna is donating nearly $2 million to a hospital in her native homeland of Barbados.
A respiratory infection following surgery to treat Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's pelvic cancer has left the politician bed ridden in the hospital
