If melanoma is caught before it spreads to the lymph nodes, the survival rate is 99 percent.
A father in hospice care spends an evening at a Whitecaps game with his sons: "Just being with the kids is the main thing."
Inspired by her grandma, 12-year-old Delaney Viewig shaved her head to support cancer research.
Cantaloupe-size masses on her ovary shattered her world, but now this survivor has faith in the future.
Toxins in BBQ fumes known as PAHs may be absorbed through the skin, and could cause lung disease and DNA mutations.
If a male has a BRCA mutation, their risk increases 100-fold.
Rescue workers are at increased risk of prostate cancer, thyroid cancer and melanoma.
A combination approach marks improvement in response, progression-free survival and overall survival in lung cancer patients.
A rare cancer therapy gives a Michigan man a second chance at life.
The medicine that saved Martha McMurry’s life also damaged her heart. Today she’s cancer-free, and her heart is on the rebound.
‘You never know how people are going to touch your life,’ says Paula Bowen, who followed wise words from a former president's daughter.
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