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Chemotherapy, radiation and cancer medications save peoples' lives, but take a toll on their bodies.

's longtime nonprofit healthcare providers have joined forces with a shared vision of enhancing cancer care, and nearly 500 community members, donors, local businesses, and celebrities celebrated in style to support the partnership of the Cancer Center of , guests were treated to Rusack wines and a variety of farmers-market-fresh appetizers as they ... (more)

Marguerite Marston, 59, of Bridgton was treated for leukemia through a partnership between Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

The "Tough Enough to Wear Pink" event held Saturday night at the Franklin Rodeo, raised $6,500 for Williamson Medical Center's Breast Health Center.

Vitamin C as a cancer treatment adjunct received a boost with the release of recent research results in the May edition of Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology.

"With better knowledge of this protein, we can better determine a patient's prognosis and see who needs more aggressive treatment immediately and who can be given a milder treatment without a risk to their life.

Actress Manisha Koirala, who announced last week that she is now free of cancer, said she intends to use her celebrity status and personal story to inspire others who are battling the dreaded disease.

In a bit of good news today, the American Cancer Society reports that as of Wednesday, its 100th birthday, two out of three people who are diagnosed with cancer today will survive for at least five years, and cancer rates in the U.S. are down 20 percent overall since the 1990s.

In the first study of human fungal skin diversity, National Institutes of Health researchers sequenced the DNA of fungi at skin sites of healthy adults to define the normal populations across the skin and to provide a framework for investigating fungal skin conditions.

A few years ago, Andrew W. Lo from the MIT Sloan School of Management gave a lengthy talk at a meet-and-greet for prospective students of the Master of Finance program.

Actress Emma Stone celebrated her mother's five-year anniversary of breast-cancer remission at a cancer benefit in Cresskill, N.J., on May 21.

The Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation held their 2013 Peace, Love & A Cure event at the home of Erika and Kevin Liles in Cresskill.

During a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, Micheal Douglas talked about his comeback into the movie industry since his cancer battle which almost ended his life in 2010.

" The Doors " co-founder Ray Manzarek traveled across the world to seek out special world class treatment for his rare form of cancer ... which is why he was in Germany when he died, TMZ has learned.

So far we've had a 15,000ft parachute jumper, a dress-down day at a supermarket giant, charity dinners and generous donations from major Yorkshire societies.

Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use.

Dr. Tolga Tuncer , a native of the United States who was raised in Ankara, Turkey, has joined the center, which is a collaboration of Borgess Health and Bronson Healthcare Group Tuncer completed four medical fellowships, the most recent in hematology and oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center in Tucson.

A not-so-surprising new study shows stress reduces the effectiveness of drugs on prostate cancer, and even accelerates the disease's development.

Racial disparities exist in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer among hospitals in the United States, according to a large new study.

It happened seven years ago, but Mary Hemrajani still tears up when she recounts her breast cancer ordeal.