
An Israeli-tested drug that tackles cancer through sophisticated manipulations of the body’s natural immune system was key in helping rid former US president Jimmy Carter of life-threatening tumors that developed after he was diagnosed with melanoma earlier this year.
by Breitbart Jerusalem8 Dec 2015, 2:56 PM PST0

A surrogate for observers of medical images may have been found by researchers from the University of California, Davis: pigeons.
by William Bigelow20 Nov 2015, 11:55 AM PST0

The claim by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that eating certain processed meats and sausages could cause cancer is being challenged by a Northern Ireland businessman. He is ready to sue the UN-affiliated agency for damages after a recent WHO report
by Simon Kent12 Nov 2015, 4:04 AM PST0

The members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of California Los Angeles showed they were more mature than the college stereotype, entertaining a 12-year-old girl battling cancer in the hospital across from their frat house, according to CBS Los Angeles and Facebook.
by William Bigelow10 Nov 2015, 1:01 PM PST0

“My All American,” written by the same screenwriter as “Rudy” and “Hoosiers,” is about the short life of “Game of the Century” University of Texas football safety Freddie Joe Steinmark. Steinmark, who died at the age of 22 of cancer, was a member of the 1969 UT National Champion and Cotton Bowl Classic winning football team.
by Lana Shadwick3 Nov 2015, 1:57 PM PST0

Two Pittsburg Steelers players have been fined for wearing unauthorized decorations or colors to support personal causes, the NFL reported on Wednesday.
by Warner Todd Huston28 Oct 2015, 12:04 PM PST0

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently added Britain’s breakfast favourites such as bacon, sausages and other red meat to the list of the ‘encyclopaedia of carcinogens’. All processed red meat is to join the premier league of cancer causing agents such as smoking,
by David Atherton28 Oct 2015, 3:03 AM PST0

By spooky coincidence at the exact moment I read in the newspaper that the World Health Organisation has declared processed pork products to be in the same cancer risk category as asbestos, tobacco and plutonium, I was eating a big
by James Delingpole27 Oct 2015, 3:51 AM PST0

Bacon, sausages and burgers are as likely to cause cancer as smoking, the World Health Organisation is set to announce. Also due to join its ‘encyclopaedia of carcinogens’ is fresh red meat, which has been deemed only slightly less risky.
by Donna Rachel Edmunds23 Oct 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

The National Football League has made a heavy push to celebrate breast cancer awareness, designating an entire month of the season to recognize the disease. But even with that focus, the league has denied the request of one player who wanted to wear pink through the whole season in tribute to his mother, who died of the disease.
by Warner Todd Huston14 Oct 2015, 12:08 AM PST0

WASHINGTON — Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy apologized Monday to an organizer of a child cancer vigil that was disrupted Saturday evening at a park near the White House because of security operations.
by Breitbart News22 Sep 2015, 10:47 AM PST0

The NHS has pulled funding for cancer treatments affecting 5,500 patients claiming that the drugs involved, which prolong human life, are not cost effective. In total it has now halved the number of cancer treatments on offer, citing financial pressures.
by Donna Rachel Edmunds5 Sep 2015, 5:51 AM PST0

The L.A. Coroner has revealed that the mystery man who left behind “1,200 guns and tons of ammunition” in a Pacific Palisades condo was 60-year-old Jeffrey Alan Lash–a man who told the women in his life that he was suffering from “nerve gas poisoning from his time in the CIA” when he was actually suffering from cancer.
by AWR Hawkins28 Aug 2015, 12:18 PM PST0

Former President Jimmy Carter revealed that a recent liver surgery found cancer has spread in his body but gave few details about his prognosis in a brief statement released Wednesday.
by Breitbart News12 Aug 2015, 4:12 PM PST0

Cell phones have become so popular that only the most dire medical findings would be likely to significantly reduce their use, but the financial and legal fallout from product liability lawsuits could deliver a major blow to the industry, with one likely result being a significant increase in the cost of cell phones, from both redesigns meant to minimize potentially harmful radiation, and the cost of major lawsuits. Who knows what other sorts of nanny interventions we could face down the line? Phones treated like packs of cigarettes, slathered with warning labels? Mandatory warning messages piped into the ears of users when they’ve been on the phone too long?
by John Hayward31 Jul 2015, 8:33 AM PST0

A packet of cigarettes will cost smokers £15 if proposals in an NHS-backed study are implemented. The Independent Cancer Taskforce has suggested six “strategic priorities” for the government to make “substantial improvements” in cancer care in England with the hike in cigarette prices
by Simon Kent21 Jul 2015, 3:55 AM PST0

Satoru Iwata, the President of Nintendo, died on Saturday, July 11, 2015, from a bile duct growth, a form of cancer. He was 55-years old.
by Robert Shimshock13 Jul 2015, 10:50 AM PST0

Bradley Cooper won over a nation with his dynamic performance in Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, and now he is trying to use his star power to help a young man battling cancer.
by Kelli Serio3 Jul 2015, 11:50 AM PST0

The Bakırköy 13th Court of Serious Crimes in Turkey set free Celal Eripek, 34, this week. Eripek was found guilty of beating his wife, who was receiving cancer treatments at the time, to death in May 2014. He only served one year.
by Mary Chastain27 Jun 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R-MD) announced Monday he is suffering from an aggressive cancer.
by Alex Swoyer22 Jun 2015, 5:53 PM PST0

Arms raised triumphantly to the sky, 92-year-old two-time cancer survivor Harriette Thompson became the oldest woman on record to complete a marathon Sunday in San Diego’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon.
by Michelle Moons1 Jun 2015, 3:42 PM PST0

Cleveland Indians players and coaches shaved their heads in a show of support for teammate Mike Aviles’ daughter, who suffers from leukemia and prepares to undergo chemotherapy.
by Warner Todd Huston28 May 2015, 12:10 AM PST0

In an interview for the May issue of Hood Housekeeping, actress Kristen Bell discussed how motherhood has changed her views on the anti-vaccination movement.
by Daniel Nussbaum14 Apr 2015, 12:58 PM PST0

Actress and director Angelina Jolie revealed Tuesday she had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in order to lower her odds of developing cancer.
by Kipp Jones24 Mar 2015, 7:36 AM PST0

How much do you think Britain’s amazing, selfless, tireless, angelic nurses should be paid for the incredible work they do caring for sick people in our National Health Service hospitals? Should it be a) a thousand pounds an hour b)
by James Delingpole16 Mar 2015, 6:25 AM PST0