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No Genetic Damage to Kids of Those Exposed to Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: Study
No Link Found Between Blood Pressure Meds and Cancer: Study
No Sign Common Steroid Spironolactone Can Cause Cancer: Study
Obamacare Gave More Breast Cancer Survivors Access to Breast Reconstruction
Obamacare Helped Women in Some Southern States Get Better Breast Cancer Care
Obese Men May Have Better Survival With Advanced Prostate Cancer
Obesity Costs the Average U.S. Adult Almost $1,900 per Year: Study
Obesity Plays Role in Higher Breast Cancer Rates for Black Women
Obesity Raises a Man's Odds for Fatal Prostate Cancer
Obesity Raises Odds for Many Common Cancers
Obesity Stigma Keeps Many From Life-Saving Cancer Screening: Study
Obesity Tied to Shorter Survival in Cancer Patients
Obesity's Influence on Colon Cancer Risk May Vary by Gender: Study
Olivia Newton-John, Singer and Actress, Dies at 73
One Key Question Can Help Spot Skin Cancer
Only Half of Folks With Stool Test Positive for Colon Cancer Get Follow-Up Colonoscopy
Opdivo Could Boost Outcomes for People Battling Hodgkin Lymphoma
Out-of-Network Costs Raise Medical Bills for Special Needs Kids
Out-of-Pocket Costs Delay Cancer Follow-Up Care, Even for the Insured
Out-of-Pocket Costs for Cancer Care Keep Climbing
Out-of-Pocket Medical Bills for COVID-19 May Average $3,800 in 2021: Study
Over a Million Americans Are Rationing Insulin Due to High Cost
Overuse of Antibiotics in Kids Adds Millions to U.S. Health Care Costs
Pancreatic Cancer Rates Rising Faster Among Women
Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Slow-Growing and Often Curable
Pandemic Brought Big Drop in Breast Cancer Screening in Older, Low-Income Women
Pandemic Caused Millions of U.S. Women to Skip Cancer Screenings
Pandemic Closures, Fears Keep Patients From Lung Cancer Screening
Pandemic Delays in Screening Mean More Breast Cancer Deaths Ahead: Study
Pandemic Funding Saved More Americans From Medical Debt
Pandemic Has Affected Kids' Dental Health: Poll
Pandemic Means Financial Hardship for Many With Diabetes
Paperwork Causing Many Americans to Lose Medicaid Coverage, White House Warns
Parent or Sibling With Colon Cancer? You May Need Colonoscopy Earlier
Parents of Hospitalized Kids Need More Info on Costs: Study
Parts of Intestinal Scope Devices Can Break Off Inside Patients
Patients of Color Less Likely to Get Specialist Care Than White Patients
Patients With Bladder Cancer May Avoid Removal of Extra Lymph Nodes, Study Finds
Paxlovid Soon Won't Be Free for Americans
People With MS Have Worse Survival If Colon Cancer Strikes
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Are Linked With Liver Cancer
Pfizer COVID Vaccine Saved 110,000 American Lives: Study
Plant-Based Diet May Help Keep Breast Cancer Away
Pollution Killed 9 Million People Worldwide in 2019
President Biden Has Skin Cancer Removed From Chest, No Further Treatment Needed
President Biden Undergoes Routine Colonoscopy
Preventing Alzheimer's
Pricey Alzheimer's Drug Drives Spike in Medicare B Premium: Officials
Progress on Lung Cancer Drives Overall Decline in U.S. Cancer Deaths
Prostate Cancer May Raise Risk for Blood Clots
Prostate Cancer: The Basics Every Man Needs to Know
Protect Your Baby From the Sun's Harmful UV Rays
Protecting Your Skin From Sun Won't Weaken Your Bones: Study
Quitting Smoking Ups Survival After Lung Cancer Diagnosis
Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Preventing Memory Loss?
Quiz: What Do You Know About Alzheimer's Disease?
'Race Gap' in U.S. Heart Health Has Changed Little in 20 Years: Report
Race, Income Can Determine Blood Cancer Outcomes, Studies Show
Radiation Plus Surgery May Be Best Against an Early Form of Breast Cancer
Radiation Rx for Prostate Cancer Can Cause Financial Pain: Study
Radiation Therapy Can Safely Be Cut in Half for Patients With Early Breast Cancer
Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer May Have Long-Term Risk for the Heart
Regular Screening Pays Off for People at High Risk for Pancreatic Cancer
Relief for America's Unemployed Could Be Crucial for Health
Research Gives Clues to Why Cancer in One Breast Could Develop in the Other
Research Reveals How Aspirin Helps Prevent Colon Cancer
Researchers Find Better Way to Fight Breast Cancer That Has Spread to Brain
Reversing a Trend, Sicker Americans Are Staying With Medicare Managed Care Plans
Saline IV Drip Just as Good as Pricier Options in Hospital ICUs: Study
Sanofi Follows Lilly, Novo Nordisk in Cutting Insulin Prices
Sarah Ferguson Reveals Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Mastectomy
Scientists Get Closer to a Better PSA Test
Scientists Pinpoint Five Bacteria Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer
Secondhand Smoke Is Sending Kids to the ER
Segregation, Poverty Tied to Worse Outcomes for Black Lung Cancer Patients
She Thought Cancer Had Won — Until This Experimental Therapy
Shining a Light on Sunscreens
Shortage of Primary Care Doctors Is Costing American Lives
Shorter Course of Post-Op Radiation May Work Well for Prostate Cancer Patients
Sickle Cell Gene Therapy Can Cure, But Costs Almost $3 Million. Who Will Pay?
Side Effects Often Missed During Breast Cancer Radiation Therapy
Skin Biopsy? Here Are Tips on Wound Care
Skipping Mammograms Raises a Woman's Odds for Breast Cancer Death
Sleep Disorders Cost U.S. Health Care System Nearly $95 Billion Per Year
Smoking Costs U.S. Economy Almost $900 Billion a Year
Smoking Reduces Survival Odds After Bladder Cancer Surgery
Smoking Weed Could Be Tougher on Your Lungs Than Cigarettes: Study
Some Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Safely Cut Down on Chemo
Some Types of Air Pollution Are Even Worse for Your Health
Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip Radiation
'Spare Tire' Might Up a Man's Prostate Cancer Risk
Staying Fit Lowers a Man's Cancer Risk, Study Confirms
'Stepped' Approach to Treating Diabetic Eye Disease May Be Best
Struggles With COVID Left Many Americans With Medical Debt
Study Takes Long-Term Look at Benefits of Radiation After Breast Lumpectomy
Sugary Drinks Raise Women's Odds for Liver Disease, Cancer
Summer's Near: What's the Best Sunscreen for You?
Supplements: Many Cancer Patients Think They'll Help, But Experts Urge Caution
Support for Obamacare Grows as Biden Takes Control: Poll
Surgery Can Boost Outcomes After Chemo for People With Pancreatic Cancer
Surgery Could Boost Survival for Women With Advanced Breast Cancers: Study
Suspicious Mammogram? Out-of-Pocket Costs Keep Some Women From Follow-Up
Switch to Plant-Based Diet Could Boost Prostate Cancer Survival
Symptoms of a Rare Breast Cancer That Many Women Could Miss
Take This Refresher on Skin Safety in Summer Sun
Targeted Drug May Lower Odds for Breast Cancer's Return in Some Patients
Targeted High-Dose Radiation Helps Fight Advanced Lung Cancer
Targeted Radiotherapy Might Help Men Battling Advanced Prostate Cancer
Teen Tanning Bed Ban Would Prevent Thousands of U.S. Melanoma Cases
Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova Diagnosed With Throat, Breast Cancer
The 5 Foods That Cut Your Odds for Colon Cancer
The Future of Cancer for Americans
The High Cost of Living With Sickle Cell Disease
Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Boosts Survival for People Battling Advanced Melanoma
Therapeutic Vaccine Is Keeping Melanoma in Remission 4 Years On
There's No Healthy Alternative to Smoking Except Quitting: Study
Think You Can Skip That Annual Physical? Think Again
Timing of Melanoma Immunotherapy Could Be Key to Outcomes: Study
Tips to Checking Your Skin for Skin Cancer
Too Little Exercise, Too Much Sitting Could Raise Breast Cancer Risk
Too Little Sunlight, Vitamin D May Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Many Antibiotics Might Raise Colon Cancer Risk
Too Often, Fatal Heart Attack or Stroke Is First Sign of Heart Trouble in Smokers
Too Often, Women Aren't Told of Sexual Side Effects of Cancer Treatments
Tough Decisions as COVID-19 Causes Cancer Surgery Delays
Treating Depression Could Lengthen Lung Cancer Patients' Lives
Tumors Have Their Own Bacterial Colonies That Could Guide Cancer Care
Turning 65 Brings Big Health Care Cost Savings, Study Finds
Two New Symptoms That Could Point to Pancreatic Cancer
Two PrEP Meds Work Equally Well; One Is Much Cheaper
Type 2 Diabetes Drug Metformin Could Help Prevent Some Breast Cancers
U.S. Breast Cancer Death Rates Continue to Fall
U.S. Cancer Death Rates Continue to Decline
U.S. Cancer Deaths Decline Overall, But Prostate Cancers Make Rebound
U.S. Cancer Screening Rates Back to Normal After Pandemic Dip
U.S. Deaths From Cancer Continue to Decline
U.S. Immigrants' Premiums, Taxes Exceed Health Care Expenditures: Study
U.S. Leads in Health Care Spending, But Is Last for Health Outcomes Among Rich Nations
U.S. Men's Race, Residence Could Raise Odds for Fatal Prostate Cancer
U.S. Seniors Are Getting Fewer Abdominal Surgeries
U.S. Spends More on Cancer Than Any Other Country. Why Are Survival Rates Low?
U.S. Will Spend $266 Million to Bolster Public Health Programs
U.S. Women More Likely to Skip Meds Than Men, Study Finds
Ultrasound Good Diagnostic Tool After Breast Symptoms
Uncooperativeness and Alzheimer's
Underarm Lump After COVID Shot Is Likely Lymph Swelling, Not Breast Cancer, Experts Say
Urinary Incontinence Surgery Won't Raise a Woman's Cancer Risk
VA Study Shows Black Men Twice as Likely to Develop Prostate Cancer as Whites
Vacations in the Sun Aren't Good for Your Skin's Microbiome
Vaccine Slows Return of Pancreatic Cancer in Early Trial
Very Early-Stage Breast Cancer Ups Long-Term Odds for Invasive Tumors: Study
Veterans at Higher Risk of Deadly Skin Cancers
Vitamin D Might Help Prevent Early-Onset Colon Cancer
Weight-Loss Surgery Could Lower Odds for Blood Cancers
Weight-Loss Surgery May Cut Pancreatic Cancer Risk in People With Diabetes
Weight-Loss Surgery May Greatly Lower Odds for Many Cancers
Welcome to the 'Smart Toilet' That Can Spot Disease
What Difference Do Calorie Counts on Menus Make?
What Foods, Medicines Can Lower Your Colon Cancer Risk?
What You Don’t Know About Skin Cancer Can Hurt You
What You Need to Know About Stomach Cancer
What You Need to Know About Your Colon Cancer Risk
When Coal-Fired Power Plants Close, Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier
When Deductibles Rise, More Diabetes Patients Skip Their Meds
When Drug Companies Raise Prices, Patients' Out-of-Pocket Costs Rise
When Genes Raise a Mom's Risk for Cancer, Is It OK to Tell Kids?
When Heart Attack Strikes, Cancer Patients Often Miss Out on Lifesaving Treatment
When Should You Start Colon Cancer Screenings?
Why a COVID Diagnosis Could Cost You Way More Money in 2021
Why Are Cases of Pancreatic Cancer Rising in Young Women?
Why Do Black Men Still Fare Worse With Prostate Cancer?
Why Emphysema May Often Be Missed in Black Men
Why Is Liver Cancer More Lethal for Black Patients?
Why Skin Cancer Checks Are Even More Important for Hispanic People
Why So Many New Cancer Diagnoses When Americans Turn 65?
Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk
Wildfire Smoke Is Especially Toxic to Lungs, Study Shows
Wildfire Survivors Could Face Higher Cancer Risk
Wildfires Ravage Firefighters' Long-Term Physical, Mental Health
Will an Early-Stage Breast Cancer Spread? New Analysis Offers Some Answers
Women More Likely to Survive Lung Cancer After Surgery: Study
Women, Take These Key Steps to Good Urological Health
Women's Cancer Screenings Plummeted During Pandemic
Workers' Share of Annual Premium for Employer Health Plans Nears $6,000
You Don't Have to Be a Smoker to Get Lung Cancer
You Don't Have to Smoke to Get Lung Cancer
Younger Age Doesn't Boost Survival With Advanced Colon Cancer
Your State's Laws Might Save Your Life If Breast Cancer Strikes
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