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Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in American women — and a growing share of new cases are in women who’ve never smoked

Hundreds of Orange County residents were expected to fill the halls of a community meeting on Tuesday evening as they voiced their concerns over an extremely rare childhood cancer that several children have been diagnosed with in recent years

Creatine is typically associated with bodybuilding as a supplement to help people build muscle, improve performance, and aid recovery after exercise. The list of its potential benefits might not end there, however. A new study, published in iScience, suggests it could one day play a role in cancer treatment

Cancer is no longer a disease that afeels distant. Almost every family today knows someone who has battled it, a parent, sibling, colleague or friend. The numbers behind that experience are becoming even more alarming.The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the world could see nearly 35 million new cancer cases every year by…

Medication he is receiving as part of an early-stage trial is working with his body, he hopes, to attack melanoma that has metastasized. At the same time, he is taking up arms against another formidable foe: the health-care bureaucracy

A film starring actors Maxine Peake and Gemma Jones will be shot in a Norfolk seaside town

A new report from the World Health Organization warns that the number of people diagnosed with cancer each year is expected to surge over the next quarter-century

Millions of people are facing physical, emotional and financial toll of cancer, a disease that claims more than 26 000 lives every day, according to a report released today by the World Health Organization (WHO). With an estimated 20.6 million new cases and close to 10 million deaths annually, cancer remains the second leading cause…

Over the last few years, several studies have shown the potential health benefits of drinking coffee

(Editors note: The headline was updated to reflect Baptist Health settled for $5 million. As the story states, Baptist settled for $5 million, while Acumen Medical Imaging and Interventional settled their portion of the lawsuit for $2 million.)