The crisis that begins with a terminal or potentially terminal diagnosis like breast cancer indeed marks the first step down a long and winding road.

After all these months of focusing every waking moment on Kenny's care, now we were to focus on his dying.

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.

In this story, Thomas received the new drug, while his cousin Brandon, as luck would have it, was assigned to the control group, given a notoriously ineffective treatment.

WASHINGTON — Cancer is a tale of two sets of genetic code, your own and your tumor's – and tracing the unique areas of damage makes for a ...

BOSTON — Cancer patients, brace yourselves. Many new drug treatments cost nearly $100,000 a year, sparking fresh debate about how much a few mon...

According to the National Cancer Institute, there are over 12 million cancer survivors in the U.S. That number is expected to grow as the population ages and treatments improve.

The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home. For the first time in months, she was able to touch her 2-year-old daughter who had been afraid o...

WASHINGTON — D.J. Soviero wanted the least treatment that would beat back her small, early-stage breast cancer, but her first doctor insisted sh...

CHICAGO — Doctors reported gains against nearly every form of cancer at a conference that ended this week. Yet when Will Thomas heard about an a...

A diagnosis of a major illness never impacts only the patient diagnosed. Clinical psychologist Dr. Barbara Wright explains how a mother's cancer diagn...

I wrote this song not just for me, not just for Stand Up To Cancer, not just for the scientists, but for you -- your mother or brother or anyone afflicted with this terrible disease.

ATLANTA — The cost of treating cancer in the United States nearly doubled over the past two decades, but expensive cancer drugs may not be the m...

A healer from Guatemala suggested I drink my own urine. Is that what my life will become? Instead of my morning ritual with PERO (coffee alternative) I'll be sipping my own morning's waste material?

Dr. Hope Rugo describes the randomized clinical trials designed to determine the duration and sequencing of hormones and the different approaches required in pre and post menopausal women.

When Tim Browne sits down to a bowl of corn flakes in the morning, he slurps up one unusual, and controversial, extra ingredient: his own daughter's b...

Gyms and fitness centers have begun stepping in to meet a small but growing demand for programs designed to not only hasten recovery but to address th...

Nanotechnology could be the new hope of cancer patients since it's been shown to make radiation therapy of cancer more effective: A nanotech approach...