Cancer News Headlines

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor G.W. Bailey shared the spotlight Sunday as celebrity king of the Bacchus parade — one the biggest in the run-up to Mardi Gras — with more than two dozen child cancer patients from across the country.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor G.W. Bailey will share the spotlight Sunday as celebrity king of the Bacchus parade — one the biggest in the run-up to Mardi Gras — with more than two dozen child cancer patients from across the country.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two months have passed since Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez climbed the stairs of the presidential jet, blew kisses to his supporters and flew to Cuba to undergo his fourth cancer-related surgery.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition leaders derided another currency devaluation by President Hugo Chavez's government as evidence of economic incompetence, while some anxious Venezuelans hit the shops on Saturday in fear of price increases. Although Chavez has not been seen in public since cancer surgery two months ago in Cuba, …

You would never guess that the woman in a photo who is smiling and swishing a pink tulle gown in front of the Eiffel Tower underwent 16 rounds of chemotherapy and five surgeries when she was diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago. You would...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition leaders derided another currency devaluation by President Hugo Chavez's government as evidence of economic incompetence, while some anxious Venezuelans packed stores in fear of price increases. Though unseen in public since cancer surgery two months ago in Cuba, government ministers said Chavez …

(Reuters) - U.S. regulators have approved a new drug from Celgene Corp for patients with multiple myeloma whose disease has worsened after being treated with other cancer drugs. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it approved the drug, Pomalyst, also known as pomalidomide, for the most difficult-to-treat …

The Food and Drug Administration said Friday it approved a new drug from Celgene for patients with hard-to-treat multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood.The agency approved the pill Pomalyst for cases ...

(Reuters) - IBM's Watson supercomputer has beaten expert "Jeopardy" quiz show contestants, and its predecessor defeated a world chess champion. Now, doctors hope it can help them outsmart cancer. Oncologists at two medical groups have started to test IBM's Watson's supercomputer system in an effort to improve speed and …

(Reuters) - Oncolytics Biotech Inc said a mid-stage trial of its experimental lung cancer drug showed that 95 percent of the patients experienced a reduction in the size of their tumors, sending its stock up as much as 38 percent. Shares of the company, with a market value of about C$279 million ($273 million) as of Thursday …

Shares of Oncolytics Biotech Inc. jumped Friday after the company said its drug Reolysin shrunk the tumors of almost all the patients in a small clinical trial.The company said 20 patients were treated ...

Cancer isn't really an equal opportunity disease. It is the second-biggest killer of Americans (after heart disease), but your gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic level, and more have a big impact on whether you get cancer, when you develop it, and what your chance of survival is.

People who are stressed out by their jobs can let out a sigh of relief: It's unlikely all that job stress increases your risk of cancer, reports a new study from Europe.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Just minutes before showtime, the neophyte models fidgeted nervously as helpers rushed to put the final touches on makeup and adjust the clothes.

You might see pictures of Jill Brzezinski-Conley and think, at first glance, that she is a famous model in the latest ad campaign for a well-known fragrance or cosmetic line. You would be wrong. As told in a Huffington Post story, Brzezinski-Conley is a 35-year-old woman with incurable stage 4 bone cancer who is fighting …

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Screening women over 65 each year for breast cancer doesn't catch any more early tumors - but it does lead to more false positives - than screening every other year, according to a new study. The findings are based on more than 140,000 older women included in five mammography registries across …

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Not all kids need a CT scan after a blunt trauma to the abdomen, according to a new study that identifies seven key signs to help doctors decide when a scan is unnecessary. CT scans are becoming commonplace in emergency rooms, but they aren't harmless. Each scan delivers a dose of radiation that …

(Reuters) - "Good Morning America" host Robin Roberts will rejoin the ABC morning television show on February 20 after treatment for a rare blood disorder, the show said on Thursday. Roberts' doctors deemed her healthy enough to return to work five months after receiving a bone marrow transplant to treat myelodysplastic …

One in 12 stroke survivors thought about suicide or that they would be better off dead, a troubling federal survey reveals. That's more than those with other health problems such as heart attacks or cancer, ...

If you have some types of cancer and your treatment includes chemotherapy, there’s a good chance you’ll be prescribed the drug Doxil. If your doctor can get her hands on any, that is. Doxil is one of many crucial drugs that’s in seriously short supply.

Corruption accusations and insults are flying between allies and opponents of President Hugo Chavez nearly two months after the Venezuelan leader disappeared from the political stage to undergo cancer ...

Imagine walking around with a couple of objects more valuable than gold sticking out of your face—objects people want to kill you for. It wouldn’t be a good way to live to a ripe old age.

SPOKANE, Wash. - Two people from Oregon and two from Washington have been charged with selling an ingredient for bleach online as a cure-all for arthritis, cancer and the flu.