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People in lower-income communities are more likely to die of colon cancer, often because they don't get diagnosed early enough. Those premature deaths take a financial toll, too.
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From Texas Standard: The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer announced yesterday that processed meats are ...
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Having darker skin reduces the risk of skin cancer, but doesn't eliminate it. Hispanics are less likely to be aware of that risk, and more apt to be diagnosed late, which can be deadly.
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Dr. Dean Ornish studied how lifestyle changes could help people with chronic heart disease; he wanted to figure out if there was a way to do the same with some types of cancer.
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Giving away something that could make you a billion dollars sounds foolish. But Dr. Jay Bradner believes it's essential to share even the most prized scientific discoveries if we hope to cure cancer.
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Terminal cancer patients sometimes get chemotherapy in the belief that it will ease their symptoms. But a study finds that many who get the treatment near death actually have a poorer quality of life.
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WASHINGTON — Beau Biden, who followed his father, Vice President Joe Biden, into politics and was twice elected attorney general of Delaware, died…
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Women with dense breasts are more likely to get cancer and less likely to catch it early on a mammogram. But degree of density matters too, a study finds, as do other factors like family history.
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More than half of Texas women faced at least one barrier to accessing reproductive health care in the years after lawmakers dramatically altered the…
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A new type of blood test is starting to transform cancer treatment, sparing some patients the surgical and needle biopsies long needed to guide their…