Cancer

Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh says he’s had a setback in his fight against advanced lung cancer, NBC News reports.

The first person known to be cured of HIV infection, Timothy Ray Brown, has died

A spokesperson says Trump health appointee Michael Caputo has metastatic head and neck cancer.

A former economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania who beat his wife to death inside their King of Prussia, Pennsylvania home was ordered to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to his daughter.

Washington Football coach Ron Rivera has been diagnosed with a form of skin cancer.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is perhaps the most forthcoming member of the Supreme Court when it comes to telling the public about her many health issues

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she is fighting a recurrence of liver cancer but she continues to be able to do her job on the Supreme Court.

New research finds that cancer deaths have dropped more in states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act than in states that did not

After several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, NBC’s Kristen Dahlgren is cancer-free! The NBC News correspondent announced the exciting news on Twitter alongside a photo of herself wearing a protective face mask. “After 8 rounds of chemo and 25 rounds of radiation I AM DONE WITH CANCER TREATMENT!!” she wrote. “No hugs or high 5’s… not even a bell…

One of New York’s bravest who died from 9/11-related pancreatic cancer was laid to rest on Thursday, his casket draped with the American flag as loved ones said their final goodbyes to the hero. Family and friends of Daniel Foley, a 21-year veteran of the FDNY, gathered at the Holy Family Church in New Rochelle to pay their final...

Daniel Foley, who worked at Ground Zero for more than a week before pulling the body of his fellow firefighter brother from the pile, died last week from 9/11-related pancreatic cancer. NBC New York’s Rana Novini reports.

One of New York’s bravest has died from 9/11-related pancreatic cancer. Daniel Foley, a 21-year veteran of the FDNY, died at the age of 46. His brother Tom, also a firefighter, was killed in the World Trade Center attacks. Foley served with the FDNY’s Rescue Company 3 and Ladder 49, both in the Bronx. He was cited 10 separate times…

Former “Top Chef” Fatima Ali says she has a year to live. The 29-year-old underwent surgery to remove a tumor in January. However, Ali wrote Tuesday in an essay for Bon Appetit that the “cancer cells my doctors believed had vanished are back with a vengeance in my left hip and femur bone.” Ali says her oncologist told her she...

Getting a blood test to screen for cancer in the earliest stages might seem like a pipe dream. But a group of biotech entrepreneurs say they’re close to making it a reality. If Gabriel Otte’s start-up, Freenome, is successful, millions of people could get a blood test to screen for early-stage colorectal cancer. Freenome looks for two major biomarkers...

Life expectancy in the U.S. went up for the first time in four years

The former professor allegedly used $78,000 earmarked for cancer research on personal expenses, such as mortgage payments on his home

4-year-old Tom (Tomaladon) Glackin inspires everyone in his community with his fight against cancer.

Cancer death rates have declined steadily over the past several decades, falling by nearly a third since the early 1990s, according to a report published Wednesday by the American Cancer Society.

Alex Trebek has a message of support for Congressman John Lewis as both fight pancreatic cancer. “We’re starting a new year, and let’s see if we can’t both complete the year as pancreatic cancer survivors,” Trebek said when asked what he would tell Lewis. He noted they’re the same age, 79. The Georgia Democrat and veteran civil rights leader...

As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured and the TV images from an Alabama bridge in the 1960s forced a nation’s awakening to racial discrimination. As a congressman today at 79, Lewis is facing a foe like none before: advanced pancreatic cancer.