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Minorities Bore the Brunt of U.S. COVID Deaths: Study
Mixed Progress Against Cancers in Teens, Young Adults
Moderate Use of Hair Relaxers Won't Raise Black Women's Cancer Risk: Study
Money Troubles Can Delay Cancer Diagnoses, Putting Survival in Jeopardy
More Additives Being Added to Americans' Food, Report Finds
More Americans Gaining Access to Opioid Addiction Treatment, But Race Matters
More Breast Cancer Survivors Opting to 'Go Flat' After Mastectomy
More Cancer Patients Got Palliative Care After Obamacare
More Olive Oil May Bring Longer Life: Study
More Than 10 Million People Died of Cancer Worldwide in 2019
More Than Half of Cancer Survivors Fear a Recurrence
Most Americans Don't Follow Diets That Could Prevent Cancer
Most Cancer Screenings Make Big Rebound After Pandemic Decline
Most Survivors of Severe COVID-19 Report Symptoms Many Weeks After 'Recovery'
Most Women With Early Breast Cancer Will Become Long-Term Survivors, New Study Shows
Mother and Son Draw Hope, Healing From Shared Cancer Treatment
Motherhood Doesn't Lower Survival for Women Who've Had Breast Cancer
MRI Might Boost Cancer Detection for Women With Dense Breasts
MS Has Mixed Impact on Patients' Cancer Risk: Study
MS May Not Affect Breast Cancer Prognosis
National Cancer Institute Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli Reveals She Has Breast Cancer
Nearly Half of U.S. Breast Cancer Patients Use Pot or CBD; Many Don't Tell Doctors
Need a New Liver? Your Survival Odds May Depend on Race
New Blood Test May Improve Liver Cancer Screening
New Breast Scanning Technology Might Beat Standard Mammography
New Clues to How Cancers Originate in the Brain
New Clues to How Ovarian Cancer Begins -- and Might Be Prevented
New Drug Combo Boosts Survival Against Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer
New Drug Could Be Advance Against Glioma Brain Tumors
New Drug Could Extend Life for People With ALS
New Drug Might Be Non-Surgical Option for Common Skin Cancers
New Hope Against a Rare but Incurable Eye Cancer
New Hope Against Painful Skin Issues Caused by Cancer Radiation Therapy
New Hormonal Pill May Boost Outcomes for Older Breast Cancer Patients
New Tests for Colon, Prostate Cancer Show Promise
New Treatment Greatly Boosts Survival for Kids With Aggressive Brain Cancer
New Treatments Battle Advanced Breast Cancers
New Type of Treatment Tackles Tough-to-Treat Prostate Cancer
New Ultrasound Patch Spots Tiny Breast Abnormalities in Early Trial
Newer Hormone Treatments for Prostate Cancer May Raise Risk of Depression
Newly Approved Drug Fights Lung Cancer Tied to Certain Genes
No 'Last Goodbye' for Cello: 5-Hour Surgery Saved Dog's Life
No Lasting Lung Damage After Full Recovery From COVID-19
No Link Found Between Blood Pressure Meds and Cancer: Study
Obamacare Boosts Colon Cancer Diagnosis, Care: Study
Obamacare Gave More Breast Cancer Survivors Access to Breast Reconstruction
Obamacare Helped Extend Lives of People With Cancer
Obamacare Helped Women in Some Southern States Get Better Breast Cancer Care
Obamacare May Have Helped Extend Lives of Young Cancer Patients
Obamacare May Have Helped Lower Suicide Rates
Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Helped Americans' Blood Pressure
Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Helped Find Cases of Undiagnosed HIV
Obese Men May Have Better Survival With Advanced Prostate Cancer
Obesity Plays Role in Higher Breast Cancer Rates for Black Women
Obesity Raises Odds for Many Common Cancers
Obesity Stigma Keeps Many From Life-Saving Cancer Screening: Study
Obesity Tied to Shorter Survival in Cancer Patients
Old Age No Bar to Successful Heart Transplant, Study Finds
Olivia Newton-John, Singer and Actress, Dies at 73
Out-of-Pocket Costs Delay Cancer Follow-Up Care, Even for the Insured
Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis Can Take Big Toll on Women's Mental Health
Over 60? You Have Billions of Potentially Cancer-Causing Cells
Pandemic Brought Big Drop in Breast Cancer Screening in Older, Low-Income Women
Pandemic Caused Millions of U.S. Women to Skip Cancer Screenings
Pandemic Closures, Fears Keep Patients From Lung Cancer Screening
Pandemic Delays in Screening Mean More Breast Cancer Deaths Ahead: Study
Pandemic Funding Saved More Americans From Medical Debt
Pandemic Has Affected Kids' Dental Health: Poll
Pandemic Has Greatly Slowed Pace of Cancer Research
Paperwork Causing Many Americans to Lose Medicaid Coverage, White House Warns
Parent or Sibling With Colon Cancer? You May Need Colonoscopy Earlier
Patients of Color Less Likely to Get Specialist Care Than White Patients
Patients With Sickle Cell Disease Often Overlooked for Life-Saving Kidney Transplants
Pentagon Study Finds Higher Cancer Rates Among Pilots, Ground Crews
People With MS Have Worse Survival If Colon Cancer Strikes
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Cost the U.S. Billions
Pfizer Recalls All Lots of Anti-Smoking Drug Chantix Due to Potential Carcinogen
Plant-Based Diet May Help Keep Breast Cancer Away
Post-Op Deaths Decline for Cancer Patients, But Blacks Still More Vulnerable
PrEP HIV Prevention Pills to Be Free for Insured Americans
Primary Care Visits Shorter, More Prone to Error for Non-White Patients: Study
Program Aims to Get Lifesaving Drugs to Kids With Cancer in Poorer Countries
Progress on Lung Cancer Drives Overall Decline in U.S. Cancer Deaths
Prostate Cancer Drug Could Be 'Game Changing,' Researchers Say
Prostate Cancer: The Basics Every Man Needs to Know
Quitting Smoking Ups Survival After Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Race Matters in Stroke Survival, Study Finds
Radiation Plus Surgery May Be Best Against an Early Form of Breast Cancer
Radiation Rx for Prostate Cancer Can Cause Financial Pain: Study
Radiation Therapy Can Safely Be Cut in Half for Patients With Early Breast Cancer
Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer May Have Long-Term Risk for the Heart
Recall of Philips Breathing Machines Affects Millions of Americans
Record 16.5 Million Americans Have Signed Up for Obamacare
Research Gives Clues to Why Cancer in One Breast Could Develop in the Other
Researchers Find Better Way to Fight Breast Cancer That Has Spread to Brain
Sarah Ferguson Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Mastectomy
Screening Often Misses Endometrial Cancer in Black Women
Secondhand Smoke Can Raise Odds for Mouth, Throat Cancers
Severe COVID for People Under 45: Who's Most at Risk?
Shape, Size of Brain Arteries May Predict Stroke Risk
She Thought Cancer Had Won — Until This Experimental Therapy
Shorter Course of Post-Op Radiation May Work Well for Prostate Cancer Patients
Side Effects From New Cancer Meds Have Silver Lining
Side Effects Often Missed During Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy
Skipping Mammograms Raises a Woman's Odds for Breast Cancer Death
Smoking Rates High Among Surgery Patients
Smoking Reduces Survival Odds After Bladder Cancer Surgery
Some Myeloma Patients Get No Protection From COVID-19 Vaccines
Some Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Safely Cut Down on Chemo
Some Sick Patients Get Cosmetic Surgery to Boost Appearance
Some Young Cancer Survivors Won't Get Cancer-Preventing HPV Vaccine
Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip Radiation
Statins Tied to Significantly Lower Death Rate From Ovarian Cancer
Study Compares Bypass, Stenting for Patients With Severe Heart Disease
Study Pinpoints Cancer Patients at Highest Risk From COVID
Study Takes Long-Term Look at Benefits of Radiation After Breast Lumpectomy
Supplements: Many Cancer Patients Think They'll Help, But Experts Urge Caution
Support for Obamacare Grows as Biden Takes Control: Poll
Surgery Can Boost Outcomes After Chemo for People With Pancreatic Cancer
Surgery Could Boost Survival for Women With Advanced Breast Cancers: Study
Surgery Holds Danger for Seniors. Who's Most at Risk?
Surviving Childhood Cancer Can Take Toll on Adult Heart
Survivors of Severe COVID Face Doubled Risk for Death a Year Later
Survivors of Severe COVID Face Higher Odds for Another Hospitalization Soon After
Suspicious Mammogram? Out-of-Pocket Costs Keep Some Women From Follow-Up
Switch to Plant-Based Diet Could Protect Older Women's Brains
Symptoms of a Rare Breast Cancer That Many Women Could Miss
Take This Refresher on Skin Safety in Summer Sun
Targeted Drug May Lower Odds for Breast Cancer's Return in Some Patients
Targeted Drug Tagrisso Could Be Advance Against Lung Cancer
Targeted High-Dose Radiation Helps Fight Advanced Lung Cancer
Targeted Radiotherapy Might Help Men Battling Advanced Prostate Cancer
Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Diagnosed With Throat, Breast Cancer
Texas Court Case Could Threaten Americans' Health Care Nationwide
Texas Judge Says Obamacare Can't Require Coverage for Meds That Prevent HIV
The Future of Cancer for Americans
Therapeutic Vaccine Is Keeping Melanoma in Remission 4 Years On
There May Be a Better Way to Allocate Precious Donor Lungs for Transplant
Think a Little Alcohol Might Be Healthy? Think Again
Tips for Making 2021 a Healthier Year
Tips to Checking Your Skin for Skin Cancer
Too Little Exercise, Too Much Sitting Could Raise Breast Cancer Risk
Too Little Sunlight, Vitamin D May Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Many Antibiotics Might Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Much Restaurant Fare Could Shorten Your Life
Too Much Sitting Could Mean Worse Outcomes for Cancer Survivors
Too Often, Women Aren't Told of Sexual Side Effects of Cancer Treatments
Tough Decisions as COVID-19 Causes Cancer Surgery Delays
Tough Journeys: When Cancer Strikes People Living With Dementia
Tougher Federal Penalties to Come for Failing Nursing Homes
Treating Depression Could Lengthen Lung Cancer Patients' Lives
Treating Menopausal Symptoms: An Expert Describes Pros, Cons
Trials Show COVID Vaccines Well Worth It for Cancer Patients
Tumors Have Their Own Bacterial Colonies That Could Guide Cancer Care
Two New Symptoms That Could Point to Pancreatic Cancer
Type 2 Diabetes Drug Metformin Could Help Prevent Some Breast Cancers
Type of Medicare Could Influence Cancer Patients' Outcomes
U.S. Breast Cancer Death Rates Continue to Fall
U.S. Cancer Death Rates Continue to Decline
U.S. Cancer Screening Rates Back to Normal After Pandemic Dip
U.S. Cancer Survivors Now Number 18 Million
U.S. Deaths From Cancer Continue to Decline
U.S. Spends More on Cancer Than Any Other Country. Why Are Survival Rates Low?
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Challenge to Affordable Care Act
Ukraine: The War on Cancer, Fought in a War Zone
Ultrasound Good Diagnostic Tool After Breast Symptoms
Underarm Lump After COVID Shot Is Likely Lymph Swelling, Not Breast Cancer, Experts Say
Urinary Incontinence Surgery Won't Raise a Woman's Cancer Risk
US to Allow Medicaid to Pay for Drug Treatment in Prisons
VA Study Shows Black Men Twice as Likely to Develop Prostate Cancer as Whites
Vaccinating Oldest First for COVID Saves the Most Lives: Study
Vaccine Slows Return of Pancreatic Cancer in Early Trial
Vaping Can Trigger Gene Changes in Cells: Study
Vaping Just Once Triggers Dangerous 'Oxidative Stress'
Very Early-Stage Breast Cancer Ups Long-Term Odds for Invasive Tumors: Study
Veterans at Higher Risk of Deadly Skin Cancers
Vision Problems Are On the Decline for American Seniors
Vitamin D Might Help Prevent Early-Onset Colon Cancer
Weed Killer Glyphosate Found in Most Americans' Urine
'Weekend Effect' Affects Survival Odds for Rural Stroke Patients
Weight-Loss Surgery Could Lower Women's Cancer Risk
Weight-Loss Surgery May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk in People With Diabetes
Weight-Loss Surgery May Greatly Lower Odds for Many Cancers
Welcome to the 'Smart Toilet' That Can Spot Disease
Were Cancer Patients Neglected in U.S. COVID Vaccine Rollout?
What You Need to Know About Your Colon Cancer Risk
When Adults Sign Up for Medicaid, Kids Can Benefit
When Booze Labels Carry Health Warnings, Drinking Declines: Study
When Cancer Strikes Those Under 40, Race Matters
When Cancer Strikes, Who's at Higher Risk for Suicide?
When Cardiac Arrest Strikes, Survival Odds Are Better at Airports
When COVID Strikes Cancer Patients, Men Fare Worse
When Genes Raise a Mom's Risk for Cancer, Is It OK to Tell Kids?
When Heart Attack Strikes, Cancer Patients Often Miss Out on Lifesaving Treatment
Where You Live Could Predict Your Survival After Heart Attack
WHO Agency Declares Aspartame a Possible Carcinogen
Who's Most Likely to Join a Clinical Trial?
Why Are Cases of Pancreatic Cancer Rising in Young Women?
Why Do Black Men Still Fare Worse With Prostate Cancer?
Why Do Black Patients Fare Worse With Blood Cancer Than Whites?
Why Skin Cancer Checks Are Even More Important for Hispanic People
Why So Many New Cancer Diagnoses When Americans Turn 65?
Wildfires Ravage Firefighters' Long-Term Physical, Mental Health
Will an Early-Stage Breast Cancer Spread? New Analysis Offers Some Answers
Will CPR Save Your Life? Study Offers a Surprising Answer
With Holidays Ahead, COVID Boosters a Must for People With Weak Immune Systems
Women Less Likely to Survive Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Women More Likely to Survive Lung Cancer After Surgery: Study
Women Smokers Less Likely to Get Cancer Screenings
Women's Cancer Screenings Plummeted During Pandemic
You Can Help Prevent Cervical Cancer
Young Cancer Survivors Vulnerable to COVID, But Often Shun Vaccine
Young, Immune-Compromised Patients Are Hotspots for Coronavirus Mutations: Study
Younger Age Doesn't Boost Survival With Advanced Colon Cancer
Your Hospital Room Could Affect Outcomes After Surgery
Your State's Laws Might Save Your Life If Breast Cancer Strikes
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