Johns Hopkins researchers say they have uncovered the path that breast cancer takes to the lungs, information that could lead to therapies to block metastases responsible for 90 percent of breast cancer deaths.
“Metastasis transforms breast cancer from a local, curable disease, to one that is systemic and lethal,” said Dr. Gregg L....
Pregnant women sacrifice many of life’s simple pleasures — caffeine, sushi, a glass of wine — in the hope that their baby will be born healthy.
But according to a provocative new field of research, what happens during pregnancy can have lasting consequences that emerge decades after the child leaves the hospital. Studies are finding that...
It’s claimed the lives of many well-known celebrities, including Steve Jobs, Michael Landon and Patrick Swayze. This year, it will inflict its wrath on approximately 44,000 people. Of those, 37,000 will lose their lives.
Pancreatic cancer isn’t as rare as you might think. According to the American Cancer Society, it’s the fourth-leading...
LOS ANGELES — She has had four surgeries to remove her thyroid, parathyroid and vocal cord nerve, along with muscle and tissue.
Once a year, she goes to a hospital and swallows a radioactive iodine capsule to attack the remaining cancer cells — and then remains in isolation for four days. During what she calls her quarantine, she can’t...
Kris Carr, whose 2007 documentary “Crazy Sexy Cancer” and subsequent books of the same genre propelled her onto the bestseller lists, comes to the Detroit area from Woodstock, N.Y., next month for a fundraiser for the Pink Fund. Carr, now 40, was an actress who appeared as a Bud Girl in a Super Bowl beer commercial in 2003 just weeks before she...
