| (USA TODAY) -- New research highlights drugs that make cancer therapy easier, but it also underscores the difficulties patients may encounter after treatment.
CHICAGO (AP) -- New lung cancer screening guidelines from three medical groups recommend annual scans but only for an older group of current or former heavy smokers.
(USA TODAY) -- After learning she had advanced ovarian cancer, Susan Gubar felt the need to reassure her two grown daughters that not even death could separate them.
(The New York Times News Service) -- San Francisco -- Donna Summer, the graceful and commanding singer who ruled the disco era with hits like "Last Dance" and "Bad Girls, winning five Grammy Awards, died Thursday in Florida. She was 63.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the past year, a government survey found - a sign young people aren't heeding the warnings about skin cancer.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- The death toll cancer takes in Canada is on the decline, fuelled in large part by the fact that lung cancer is killing fewer Canadian men than it did in earlier decades, the Canadian Cancer Society said Wednesday.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Men rarely get breast cancer, but those who do often don't survive as long as women, largely because they don't even realize they can get it and are slow to recognize the warning signs, researchers say.
ATLANTA (AP) -- A cancer diagnosis often inspires people to exercise and eat healthier. Now the experts say there's strong evidence that both habits may help prevent the disease from coming back.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- Health Canada is warning that taking the diabetes drug Actos may increase one's risk of developing bladder cancer.
TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- There is more variation in breast cancer than current treatment approaches acknowledge, according to the largest effort to date to distinguish between and find out what's driving breast cancer tumours.
NEW YORK (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Warren Buffett, the world's third richest man, said Tuesday that he has prostate cancer and will undergo radiation treatment.
(Chicago Daily Herald) -- The deadliest form of skin cancer has long been thought to be mainly a threat in late middle age and among men.
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