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When Dana Reeve—wife of disabled actor Christopher Reeve and a well-known activist for disabled persons’ rights—succumbed to lung cancer at age 44, her death raised a lot of eyebrows—and a lot of awa...

Are you a tea drinker, sometimes drinking multiple cups a day? It may be time to “cool things down.” A recent study suggests a significant link between hot tea and esophageal cancer. Surpr...

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes Over the past decade, advances in breast cancer have been changing women’s lives for the better. Take breast conservation surgery. Lumpectomy followed by radiat...

Some people may delay a lung cancer screening or other routine screenings out of fear of diagnosis. But the truth is, getting screened early can significantly improve your chances of survival if somet...

After skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women; only lung cancer is deadlier. This serious disease will affect over 275,000 American women this year alone. Of those, 42,000 will ...

Seven years ago, Lynel McFadden was diagnosed with stage one, triple negative breast cancer, and she was understandably scared.  She had been referred to another healthcare organization and that ...