Cancer

After successfully testing it on employees, Point32Health wants to bring more people into the program.

A woman from Vermont’s Franklin County is pledging to live every day as if it is Thanksgiving, expressing deep gratitude to be alive and channeling that energy into uplifting youth through a new nonprofit. “I used to say, ‘Gratitude is my religion,’” Beth White said Thanksgiving morning as the hobbyist pilot prepared for a flight from the Franklin County...

In celebration of “Movember”, cancer survivor and Boston Movember Foundation Ambassador Mike Irgens talks about the importance of the Movember movement in raising awareness for mental health and cancer.

R&B singer Mary J. Blige has joined first lady Jill Biden to promote cancer prevention.

Is cancer spreading at a New Jersey high school? A mother is demanding answers after she said she conducted her own tests at the school her children attend — and believes cancer-causing toxins and materials were found.

‘If you care about Black women’s health, you have to care about our hair,’ said professor Wendy Greene, a leading voice in the movement against Black hair discrimination

A 20-year-old Long Island native and minor league pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies has died after a battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, the team’s head of player development announced Thursday. Corey Phelan, of Greenlawn, was an undrafted free agent out of Harborfields High School who signed with the squad in 2020. He gave up just one run while pitching nine...

Windsurfer Michael Cramer was on track to compete for Team USA at the Olympics before a cancer diagnosis at 19 derailed his career. That discovery was only the first chapter of Cramer’s story.

First responders put on a parade for a three-year-old recovering from cancer treatment in Oakland County, Michigan.

Twenty four brave women will step into the ring for their first amateur boxing match at MGM Music Hall at Fenway to help raise awareness and knock out cancer.

An Ontario community wanted to give Alexandros Hurdakis and his family an epic celebration to remember.

On Air Force 1 Monday, President Joe Biden showed some love to a heroic Boston boy dealing with an issue close to the president’s heart. Biden put on a Mighty Quinn wristband, paying tribute to Quinn Waters of Weymouth, the 6-year-old battling brain cancer for a second time. The boy has become beloved in the Boston area. When in isolation…

President Joe Biden renewed the nation’s battle against cancer with a speech in Boston.

President Joe Biden discussed his goal of ending cancer as we know it in a Boston speech.

Speaking at an under-construction terminal at Boston’s Logan International Airport, President Joe Biden touted how last year’s infrastructure bill will improve airports across the nation.

President Joe Biden was in Boston Monday calling for Americans to come together in a push to find a cure for cancers, hoping a divided country can unify around a cause to save lives and improve the quality of life for patients and families. The Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Initiative that Biden created is aimed at ensuring the ingredients that pharmaceutical…

Paul Bristow loves being active. So when the 69-year-old was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer, it came as a gut punch to him and his wife, Kathy. “It is almost like an out of body experience. He’s talking to me saying that we think it could be cancer, you can’t believe it,” Bristow said. “When you hear that word...

Actress and activist Jane Fonda revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “This is a very treatable cancer… so I feel very lucky.”

The two-time Oscar winner says she’s started chemotherapy, but won’t let that treatment slow her activism.