Cancer

An Ontario community wanted to give Alexandros Hurdakis and his family an epic celebration to remember.

Actress and activist Jane Fonda revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “This is a very treatable cancer… so I feel very lucky.”

The two-time Oscar winner says she’s started chemotherapy, but won’t let that treatment slow her activism.

The New York State Department of Health said a study found the number of people from a Long Island school district living with cancer to be “statistically significant,” but investigators stressed that the community should not be concerned.

Although significant cancer levels were found on Long Island, investigators say the community should not be worried. Ida Siegal reports.

He is sharing his story in hopes it will help others catch potential health problems before it’s too late. Rana Novini reports.

Minecraft YouTuber Technoblade has passed away at the age of 23, his family confirmed.

Dolly Parton is donating $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

At least 19 patients with a specific form of rectal cancer are now in remission, completely cancer-free, without any side effects after taking an experimental new treatment. NBC New York Erica Byfield reports.

The doctor behind a breakthrough New York City-based cancer study said that the astounding results are unlike anything he — or anyone — has seen before, as some of the patients who benefitted from the experimental drug spoke for the first time as well.

A newly disclosed cancer study had “unprecedented” and “unheard-of” results, and now all eyes are on dostarlimab, the GlaxoSmithKline drug used to achieve complete remission in the trial. Developed by a biotech company out of Massachusetts called Tesaro before being acquired by GlaxoSmithKline in 2019, dostarlimab is also known by the brand name Jemparli. First approved in the United States…

A small NYC-led cancer trial has achieved a result reportedly never before seen – the total remission of cancer in all of its patients.

A small NYC-led cancer trial has achieved a result reportedly never before seen – the total remission of cancer in all of its patients. To be sure, the trial — led by doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering and backed by drug maker GlaxoSmithKline — has only completed treatment of 12 patients, with a specific cancer in its early stages and…

Researchers at Rice University are hoping to begin human clinical trials on a cancer treatment that fights the disease right at the site of the tumor. Patients would be injected with a small bead the size of a pinhead – and this bead would act as a “factory,” secreting a protein that gets the body’s white blood cells to destroy...

A long-running cancer charity scam, that allegedly made one New York man thousands of dollars that went toward his mortgage payments and credit card bills instead of sick patients, has been busted by city prosecutors. The man from Staten Island appeared in court on Monday to face charges alleging he created at least 23 fake cancer charity organizations and pocketed…

A new study has found clues about what’s driving an increase in uterine cancer deaths, particularly among Black women.

Scientists from the United Kingdom have analyzed the full genetic blueprints of more than 18,000 cancer samples, finding new patterns of mutations that could help doctors provide better, more personalized treatment.

For years, Maria Sylvia thought the streak on her nail was just a mole. A biopsy revealed something different.

A new type of blood test that checks for signs of cancer in healthy people has hit the market

A banner asking for prayers and support for a woman battling cancer is at the center of a dispute between a New Jersey pediatric nurse and her landlord — which has led to the city not only stepping in, but taking sides.