Cancer

A Pentagon study has found high rates of cancer among military pilots and, for the first time, shows that ground crews who fuel, maintain and launch those aircraft are also getting sick. The data had long been sought by retired military aviators who have raised alarms for years about the number of those they knew who had cancer. In its...

Colon cancer was not on Carly Barrett’s radar when she suddenly began experiencing stomach symptoms at the age of 24.

Using knowledge learned during the Covid pandemic, surgeons at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago successfully performed double lung transplantations in two patients with stage 4 cancer.

President Joe Biden is requesting more than $2.8 billion in the federal budget proposal he’s sending to Congress to help advance his cancer-fighting goals.

U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX 20th District) says he’s recovering from surgery to remove rare, slow-growing tumors from his gastrointestinal tract.

The Air Force is expanding its review of cancers among its nuclear missile corps to include all personnel who worked on, guarded, supported or operated the nation’s ground-based warheads, at the three bases that house the 450 silo-based Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Girl Scout Gianna Buscho of Brentwood, who lost her mother to cancer, is going above and beyond to help other families in similar predicaments.

The spots can be mistaken for a pimple, scar, sore or a patch of dry, irritated skin.

President Joe Biden spoke on First Lady Jill Biden’s recovery after having surgery to remove two cancerous lesions near her eyes on Wednesday, saying there is a “0-1% chance of ever returning any cancer, so thank God she’s doing really well.”

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin said Wednesday that he has a type of lymphoma that’s a “serious but curable form of cancer” and he is beginning several months of treatment.

Merck and Moderna plan to begin the next phase of the study in 2023 and expand its use against additional kinds of tumors.

A new study is reassuring for women who are taking hormone-blocking pills after a breast cancer diagnosis and want to become pregnant.

A nonprofit is trying to make the fight against cancer a little bit easier for women.

A nonprofit is trying to make the fight against cancer a little bit easier for women.

R&B singer Mary J. Blige has joined first lady Jill Biden to promote cancer prevention.

Is cancer spreading at a New Jersey high school? A mother is demanding answers after she said she conducted her own tests at the school her children attend — and believes cancer-causing toxins and materials were found.

‘If you care about Black women’s health, you have to care about our hair,’ said professor Wendy Greene, a leading voice in the movement against Black hair discrimination

A 20-year-old Long Island native and minor league pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies has died after a battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the team’s head of player development announced Thursday. Corey Phelan, of Greenlawn, was an undrafted free agent out of Harborfields High School who signed with the squad in 2020. He gave up just one run while pitching nine...

Windsurfer Michael Cramer was on track to compete for Team USA at the Olympics before a cancer diagnosis at 19 derailed his career. That discovery was only the first chapter of Cramer’s story.

First responders put on a parade for a three-year-old recovering from cancer treatment in Oakland County, Michigan.