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    April 2, 2018
    Coffee is poured into a cup in New York, Feb. 5, 2016. The coffee industry is mulling how to fight back against a California judge’s 2018 ruling that would require the beverage to be branded with cancer warning labels. The National Coffee Association, whose members include Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts, said that it was “currently considering all of its options, including potential appeals and further legal actions.” (Alex Welsh/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Don't fret over cancer warning ordered for coffee
    Storm clouds are brewing in California's coffee cups. Companies across the state will have to add a cancer-warning label to coffee, a judge ruled...
    lifestyle/healthApril 2, 2018 - 6:59pm
    April 1, 2018
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    Coffee must carry cancer warning, California judge rules
    Bad news, coffee drinkers: A California judge has ruled that coffee companies across the state will have to carry a cancer warning label because...
    lifestyle/healthApril 1, 2018 - 6:36am
    February 23, 2018
    This man's brain tumor was so big that it 'sat like a head on top of another head'
    For the past several years, Santlal Pal had been watching a tumor emerge from his skull. Doctors in India say Pal's brain tumor grew so big that it weighed nearly four pounds and measured nearly 8-by-12-by-12 inches, according to local news reports. It may have been the largest tumor...
    lifestyle/healthFebruary 23, 2018 - 6:54am
    February 6, 2018
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    Breakthrough cancer ‘vaccine’ may eventually eliminate tumors in rapid, inexpensive way, researchers find
    STANFORD, Calif. - Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in California have developed a breakthrough cancer treatment that eliminates...
    business/healthcareFebruary 6, 2018 - 4:30pm
    January 26, 2018
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    A teenager dying of cancer has a final wish: To marry his childhood sweetheart
    Dustin Snyder knows that he may have only days left to live. For the past year and a half, the 19-year-old has been battling a rare form of cancer...
    community/peopleJanuary 26, 2018 - 5:07pm
    January 4, 2018
    A cell culture laboratory at I-Mab Biopharma in Shanghai, Dec. 12, 2017. A growing number of Chinese pharmaceutical companies are trying to break into the United States, seeking regulatory approval to offer their treatments for cancer and other ailments. (Yuyang Liu/The New York Times Copyright 2018)
    Cancer deaths fall to lowest rate in decades as smoking declines
    Fewer Americans are getting cancer, and more of those who do are surviving the disease, according to a new study. In 2015, the most recent year...
    lifestyle/healthJanuary 4, 2018 - 9:40am
    December 27, 2017
    David Fogel with his surgeon, Jeremy Davis, right, and Michael Wach, a surgical oncology fellow at the NIH hospital. Photo for The Washington Post by Astrid Riecken
    One man's choice: Life without a stomach, or dying from stomach cancer?
    David Fogel watched his aunt die a devastating death. She was diagnosed at age 56 with advanced stomach cancer, a disease as persistent as it...
    newsDecember 27, 2017 - 8:49pm
    December 25, 2017
    Leslie Wolf, right, talks Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in Wolf's Fargo home with her mother LeAnn Toppen about learning that she inherited from her a gene that predisposes her to ovarian and breast cancer. Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service
    Genetic counselors can guide patients and families about risk for diseases
    FARGO—LeAnn Toppen's trip to the emergency room led quickly to the discovery that she had ovarian cancer. A biopsy confirmed her doctors'...
    newsDecember 25, 2017 - 3:15pm
    December 15, 2017
    Dr. Miran Blanchard, a radiation oncologist with the Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center, Fargo, shows Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, a 3-D rendering of the radiation beams focused on a patient's inoperable brain tumor from many different angles; leaving the surrounding tissue undamaged. (Michael Vosburg / Forum News Service)
    Radiation as a scalpel: Technique spares healthy tissue, treats inoperable tumors
    FARGO — Meredith Staker's life depended in part on the accuracy of a face mask that vaguely resembles the type worn by hockey goalies....
    newsDecember 15, 2017 - 8:29pm
    December 11, 2017
    Andrew Antoine is pictured in his mother Judith Antoine's home in Casselton. He says she died in November of pulmonary fibrosis, caused by high levels of radon in her home. (Randy Cadwell / Forum News Service)
    'My own mother's home was a death trap': In a first, radon toxicity listed as factor in ND woman's death
    CASSELTON, N.D.—Judith Antoine began suffering from poor health a few years after moving into her home here nearly three decades ago,...
    newsDecember 11, 2017 - 6:10am
    November 28, 2017
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    Family and friends are celebrating the life of a ND 20-year-old who lost a battle with cancer
    FARGO—Friends and family, this week, will celebrate the life of Grant Heim, and his courageous battle with cancer. Heim passed away Friday,...
    community/peopleNovember 28, 2017 - 6:47am
    November 20, 2017
    Mark Naaden checks on the contents of a grain bin on Nov. 9, 2017. Naaden continues to work on his ranch near Braddock, N.D., while receiving treatment for cancer. Jenny Schlecht / Forum News Service
    In tough times, agriculture comes through for its own
    EMMONS COUNTY, N.D. — Mark Naaden gives cryptic instructions to his place: "When you see Jesus, turn toward Jesus." The site of the towering...
    business/agricultureNovember 20, 2017 - 8:52am
    November 12, 2017
    Heather Huus, of Lincoln, N.D., had her stomach surgically removed because genetic tests showed she was at high risk for gastric cancer. Tom Stromme | Bismarck Tribune
    North Dakota woman navigates life without a stomach
    LINCOLN, N.D.—Heather Huus, of Lincoln, has been adjusting to her "new normal" ever since she had her stomach removed in August 2016. After...
    newsNovember 12, 2017 - 3:20pm
    November 7, 2017
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    This November, reduce your lung cancer risk
    Smoking is the leading cause of lung cancer, but fewer Americans are smoking and lung cancer rates are declining. Still, the disease is the...
    lifestyle/healthNovember 7, 2017 - 3:15pm
    November 4, 2017
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    Moorhead woman who wished to see Christmas lights passes away
    MOORHEAD - A local woman whose last wish was to see Christmas lights passed away on Saturday, Novembr 4th. Debi Berger who had been fighting...
    newsNovember 4, 2017 - 2:20pm
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