Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...

The retired welder and pipe fitter nearly died from a bout of food poisoning due to his weak immune system, and at one point ...

When terminal cancer patients choose to die at home, as opposed to staying in the hospital, they tend to live longer, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer. The study was conducted ...

The 45-year-old mother of two says the hardest aspect of her vulvar cancer diagnosis has been coming to terms with leaving behind her eight-year-old twins.

April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

BOSTON (WBZ) — Idalina Colburn works on the eighth floor at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston helping cancer patients navigate their complicated treatment plans. It’s something she ...

Cancer of the pancreas is one of the deadliest cancers, largely due to the lack of early symptoms. But hope and progress are ...

Many terminally ill patients think clinical trials give them a fighting chance. May 21, 2008— -- Three weeks ago, 38-year-old Allan Shallenberger from Los Angeles received the same grim diagnosis ...

As FAA flight reductions and airport delays grow amid the government shutdown, a Tennessee woman battling metastatic breast ...