So, if PSA screening doesn't save lives and may result in harm, why do it at all? This counsel seems contrary to every cancer-related public service announcement we've ever heard.
When Patrick Dempsey isn't saving lives on screen as "Grey's Anatomy" character Dr. McDreamy, he's saving people in other ways with his charity work. ...
Eventually, the shadow of death will make itself known to us all and the chances for surviving life are not 50/50 but 0/0. In the meantime, may we value those who walk in the valley with us.
One might imagine that a song written by a dying boy would be sad and full of regret -- but the song is inspiring, courageous and shows his profound belief in God.
Since the time of my diagnosis of FBC (F-bomb breast cancer), we have talked openly with our five-year-old daughter about both the disease and its treatment.
Never did I imagine I would be walking through the Phil Anschutz-funded doors of the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora volunteering to be a guinea pig for cancer research. But that's what I did.
Southern Californians carry on a love-hate relationship with sunshine: we love that bountiful sunny days mean plenty of time at the beach and outdoors, but we're wary of the damage it can do to our skin.
Last year in the United States, more than one and a half million men and women were estimated to be diagnosed with cancer -- and more than half a mill...
If these complementary therapies all have the power to reduce chronic stress and depression, could they not -- in combination with medical treatment -- potentially improve the prognosis and extend the lives of cancer patients?
One thing you find out about yourself when you are recruited into a battle for your life is that while death may be around the corner, living feels pretty good.
WASHINGTON -- Device maker Novocure said Friday the Food and Drug Administration approved its first-of-a-kind treatment which fights cancerous brain t...
Even though I have wistfully watched the Boston Marathon, or the New York Marathon, or the Los Angeles Marathon, I never thought I would actually participate.
This is the story of a health insurer -- a company that is often described as the big, bad wolf of the industry -- coming through for a patient who went through the motions required of him.
I go back to the chemo room later today, but this morning I sat in on a medical panel that heard my appeal of Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield's denial of $176,365 of radiation "benefits" I received last summer.
Not all of the approximately 500,000 Americans who die of cancer each year are able to pass in the same manner and under the same circumstances as Elizabeth Edwards.