Cancer

GRAND FORKS — Women living in rural North Dakota are less likely to have their breast cancer diagnosed until it has reached an advanced stage, according to a recent University of North Dakota study. One of the authors of the study, fourth-year medical student Krishan Jethwa said...

DALLAS - Children who survive cancer treatment face increased heart health risk and should take measures soon after life-saving therapy to reduce the risk of serious problems later in life, according to research presented at a major medical meeting. The five-year survival rate...

The NFL will stop using pink penalty flags after Monday night's game between the New York Jets and Atlanta Falcons. The pink flags were part of the league's breast cancer awareness campaign.

AMSTERDAM - A new generation of drugs designed to trigger the immune system to fight cancer is offering the prospect of a "clinical cure" for some melanoma skin cancer patients who until a few years ago were more likely to be facing a swift death. Cancer specialists gathering for...

Eli Lilly and Co will not seek approval for one of its most promising experimental drugs for treating breast cancer after it failed in a late-stage trial, denting investor hopes for one of the company's most talked-about drugs. Lilly would continue to test the drug, ramucirumab,...

WASHINGTON - U.S. health regulators have strengthened the warnings on two blood cancer drugs to reflect the risk that they may reactivate the hepatitis B virus in patients previously infected with the disease. The warnings affect GlaxoSmithKline Plc's Arzerra, which was approved...

LONDON - Researchers in Britain have set out the first comprehensive map of mutational processes behind the development of tumours - work that should in future lead to better ways to treat and prevent a wide range of cancers. In a study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday,...

WASHINGTON, July 25 (Reuters) - Only slightly more than half of U.S. girls aged 13 to 17 had been vaccinated against a virus that can cause cervical and other cancers last year, and a top U.S.

ROSEMOUNT, Minn. -- Lt. Col. Mark Weber, the Rosemount soldier who became an inspiration to many as he battled terminal cancer for nearly three years, died shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday, according to a post on his Caringbridge site. According to the post, he died at home surrounded...

ROSEMOUNT, Minn. -- Lt. Col. Mark Weber, the Rosemount soldier who became an inspiration to many as he battled terminal cancer for nearly three years, died shortly after 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon, according to a post on his CaringBridge site. According to the post, he died at...

For Kathryn Stensgard, skin cancer started as a family issue. Preventing it has become a personal passion. She has seen too much of it. On her father's side of the family, five of her six relatives dealt with skin cancer -- including her father.

In a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less likely to die over the next five years if doctors monitored them instead of operating right away. Even though...