The Future of Cancer
Researchers Think They've Found the Next Chemo
This treatment can deliver more cancer-killing drugs with fewer side effects.
This Woman Made Her Own Nipples After Breast Cancer
"Until that point, I showered in the dark because every time I looked at myself, I started crying."
An Unlikely Weapon Against Aggressive Brain Cancer: The Zika Virus
Zika, doing something good for humanity for a change.
Virtual Reality Makes Chemo Less Painful
So why are American doctors still putting it on the back burner?
This Physicist Invented a Cancer-Killing Laser That Could One Day Replace Chemo
“When I was taking care of my aunt, I was like, There must be something better than just dying like this."
'I'm Not Trying to Be Hardcore About Running Through Chemo'
Gabriele Grunewald just got diagnosed with cancer for the fourth time.
Black Americans Are Living Longer—But Still Not as Long as White People
A black child born in 2014 can expect to live 75.6 years versus 79 years for a white child born that year.
Young, Healthy, and Dying of Lung Cancer
If lung cancer in non-smokers were its own statistical category, it would rank among the top ten deadliest cancers in the US.
Most Cancer Mutations Are the Result of Bad Luck, Study Says
Buuuut you still have to do healthy shit.
We Talked to the Head of the Largest-Ever Study of Black Cancer Patients
Black people are more likely to die from cancer than other groups. Researchers hope this study will help change that.
Now That We Can Alter Our Genetic Code, Should We?
Facing a breast-cancer survivor, a doctor grapples with the implications of new gene-editing recommendations.