Cancer

When my father, the editor and writer Andre Schiffrin, was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer last spring, my family assumed we would care for him in New York. But my parents always spent part of each year in Paris, where…

RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc., a leader in molecular diagnostics, is pleased to announce that it sponsored a scientific lecture, “Recent Advances in the Diagnosis and Management of Pancreatic Cysts: What a Gastroenterologist…

Pancreas cancer is notoriously impervious to treatment and resists both chemotherapy and radiotherapy. It has also been thought to provide few targets for immune cells, allowing tumors to grow unchecked. But new research from Fred…

A Chicago-based charity with Munster ties has donated $100,000 to the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Kimmel Cancer Center to fund research in pancreatic cancer prevention and detection. The Leslie F. Schwartz…

Wilko Johnson admits it's a ''dream'' to make an album with Roger Daltrey because he's ''supposed to be dead''. The 66-year-old singer - who announced he had terminal pancreatic cancer in January 2013 - has teamed up with Roger…

A Winnipeg woman diagnosed with ovarian cancer is speaking out and sharing her story in the hopes of helping women avoid dying from the disease. One week ago on Valentine’s day, Terry Dokken broke news to…

According to experts at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, even when faced with the worst possible news from your doctor, some of your recovery may actually be in your own control.…

Madeleine West is determined to raise awareness about ovarian cancer. Photo: Paul Jeffers This is Madeleine West's first visit to Hare & Grace, but she already feels a connection to the Collins Street…

A supercomputer could be the latest weapon in the fight against cancer. The IBM Watson supercomputer is being tested for applications that could improve cancer treatments. The supercomputer, named after the legendary president of IBM…

Scientists from a number of institutions, including the John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Centerand the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, have found a promising new way to non-invasively screen for early-stage…

Nuvilex, Inc. (OTCQB: NVLX) just became relevant in the biotech industry.  The company can now move forward with its clinical trials for the treatment of advanced inoperable pancreatic cancer after Nuvilex landed a $27 million…

As a key component of its new "incite change" mission, Collaboraction announces its network of Community Partners who are supporting This is Not a Cure for Cancer, the company's upcoming world premiere live theater event attacking…

To further support cancer research progression, ACEA has installed their RTCA-iCELLigence systems in the laboratories of two young cancer researchers: Dr. Melissa L. Fishel, Assistant Professor at Indiana University (USA) and Dr.…

Dear Pharmacist: Two of my relatives have pancreatic cancer, and I'm worried sick for myself. No symptoms yet, but is tcan share with them, or take myself? -- D.T., Sacramento, Calif. I'm sorry to hear about your…

Most are familiar with the fight to find a cure for breast cancer or even prostate cancer, but when we say pancreatic cancer not as many people feel a connection. Sybil Redmon is fighting to bring awareness to what she calls a…

Twenty years after his death, isn’t it time we saluted Bill Hicks as the best of the goddam bunch? Shouldn’t we brace up and face facts? He came. He saw. He poured hilarious, bilious scorn. Pancreatic cancer claimed him…

Teresa B. Mielke passed away Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, at her home surrounded by her loving family. She died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. She was a resident of Horsham for 44 years. Born in…

Accounting for just four percent of cancers in women, ovarian cancer can be treated far more easily if it is caught early. This form of cancer is caused by an uncontrolled growth of aberrant cells in the ovaries, of which the severity is…

Actress Terri Dwyer has just made an appointment to see if she can be tested for the ovarian cancer gene. And she is in no doubt that should she be found to have it, she will have a hysterectomy to ‘have it all taken…

A mother-of-two discovered she had cancer after her stomach swelled so much she looked nine months pregnant. Wendie Webb, 47, had a 13lb tumour removed from her lower abdomen in a dangerous surgical procedure which…

A new study has found a link between obesity and ovarian cancer. Obesity is the root cause of many lifestyle diseases that are leading to preventable deaths in US.  In the past four decades, obesity rates in the US have…

Actress Angelina Jolie has said that she plans to have additional cancer-preventing surgery less than a year after the actress underwent a preventative double mastectomy. “There’s still another surgery to have, which…

Brandi Maxiell is this season's newest addition to Basketball Wives: LA, but she's been through enough in her life to stay above the petty drama of her co-stars. In 2007, when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at age…

Golfers known as the ‘Riverside Rascals’ have raised almost $10,000 for the Cancer Council. The ‘Riverside rascals’ play at Riverside Oaks Golf Course, Cattai and raised the money through a charity…

Roger Lloyd-Pack was originally scripted into the new 'Only Fools and Horses' sketch. The late Trigger actor - who passed away in January following a battle with pancreatic cancer - had expressed his desire to…

Albert is a Staten Islander who has pancreatic cancer. He said that smoking marijuana eased the nausea he felt from chemotherapy and restored his appetite. "Without marijuana, I don't know what I would…

Voiceover artist Hal Douglas, whose gravelly baritone is likely recognized by movie fans after the thousands of trailers he narrated, has died, according to a report. Douglas died due to complications of…

Last year ended on a sour note for fans of country music when the great Ray Price died at his Mount Pleasant home following a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer that eventually spread to his liver, lungs and intestines. At the time…

In the UK, ovarian cancer causes more deaths than all other gynaecological cancers - and it's the fifth most common cancer affecting women. Now Laura Mercier is doing its part to help. In honour of March…

The Public Health Agency is highlighting the signs and symptoms of ovarian cancer as part of Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, which runs throughout March. Dr Miriam McCarthy, Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the PHA,…