| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cancer survivors, better work up a sweat.
(Associated Press) -- The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home.
(The New York Times News Service) -- Two teams of researchers from New England have built living, breathing lung tissue in the laboratory -- feats of engineering that could speed up the development of new drugs and bring researchers a step closer to the tantalizing dream of growing replacement lungs for patients.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's an early step toward one day building new lungs: Yale University researchers took apart and regrew a rat's lung, and then transplanted it and watched it breathe.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Some recounted their days at a smoldering ground zero. Some fought back tears. Some complained that no amount of money would make them whole.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- D.J. Soviero wanted the least treatment that would beat back her small, early-stage breast cancer, but her first doctor insisted she had only one option: tumor removal followed by radiation and chemotherapy.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Millions of cancer survivors have put off getting medical care because they couldn't afford it, according to a new study.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Doctors reported gains against nearly every form of cancer at a conference that ended this week. Yet when Will Thomas heard about an advance against prostate cancer, he wanted to know just one thing: "Is it a cure?"
LIBBY, Mont. (AP) -- Gayla Benefield and Eva Thomson are sisters who have grown used to death. For two decades, they have watched asbestos from a nearby vermiculite mine strangle their parents, Thomson's husband, an aunt, several in-laws and numerous neighbors and friends.
ATLANTA (AP) -- The cost of treating cancer in the United States nearly doubled over the past two decades, but expensive cancer drugs may not be the main reason why, according to a surprising new study.
CHICAGO (AP) -- Use of high-tech imaging scans in older cancer patients has climbed substantially in recent years, a study found, raising concerns about costs and radiation exposure.
WASHINGTON (AP)-- With a few drops of blood, scientists are creating a way to tell who's absorbed dangerous radiation levels, part of the government's preparations against a terrorist attack -- and research that just might point toward new cancer care, too.
NEW YORK (Canadian Press) -- Screening smokers for cancer with lung scans can lead to a high rate of false alarms, unneeded tests and biopsies, a new study suggests.
ATLANTA (AP) -- Fourteen states, the nation's capital and the federal government hiked their cigarette taxes last year, but health officials worry that tobacco company discounts are keeping prices down.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists may have found a way to tell which smokers are at highest risk of developing lung cancer: measuring a telltale genetic change inside their windpipes.
(Associated Press) -- Nearly one in three smokers worldwide lights up in China, where cigarettes -- commonly given as gifts -- are so tightly woven into the culture, some believe it's an impossible habit to kick. But a new report suggests the keys to quitting lie in the country's own backyard.
(USA TODAY) -- A month before Virginia banned smoking in its prisons, Warden Daniel Braxton decided to kick his own 50-year smoking habit.
(USA TODAY) -- The Food and Drug Administration announced regulations Thursday that ban the sale and marketing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products to people younger than 18 -- measures that, for the most part, already have been implemented by the states.
(USA TODAY) -- The cost of cancer treatment is "skyrocketing" -- both for individual patients and the nation, a new analysis shows.
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