Cancer

The family of Raymond T. Odierno, a retired Army general who commanded American and coalition forces in Iraq at the height of the war, says he has died of cancer.

The MSNBC anchor urged viewers to schedule routine skin checks with their doctors during an episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday, revealing she underwent surgery last week for a cancerous mole on her neck.

Federal legislation meant to help track and investigate suspected cancer clusters has not done either since it went into effect five years ago, advocates say.

A Foxboro barber went above and beyond to make a client feel comfortable in his chair — a woman who wanted her head shaved after being diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer.

Klobuchar said the cancer was removed following a lumpectomy, which was followed by radiation treatment.

Nightbirde recently withdrew from “America’s Got Talent” because of health reasons.

Danny Sheehan, an 8-year-old boy from Marshfield, Massachusetts, who loved the movie “Aquaman,” was honored with a procession Wednesday through his hometown. He died Sunday after battling a rare brain cancer.

Several days after he died from cancer, Danny Sheehan, an 8-year-old boy from Marshfield, Massachusetts, who loved the movie “Aquaman,” was honored with a procession Wednesday through his hometown.

Markie Post, who played the public defender in the 1980s sitcom “Night Court” and was a regular presence across several decades of television, has died

Longtime Boston Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy is taking time away from the booth to address his health. On Wednesday, Remy announced he will be stepping away from the NESN broadcast to undergo lung cancer treatment.

Longtime Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy announced Wednesday he will be stepping away from the NESN booth to undergo lung cancer treatment.

Kathy Griffin has revealed that she is undergoing surgery for lung cancer and her doctors are optimistic she “should be up and running around as usual in a month or less.”

The newest research, reported Monday, shows lung cancer patients who stopped smoking gained nearly two years of life compared to those who continued to smoke.

Johnson & Johnson is pulling some of its sunscreens from store shelves over concerns that they contain a cancer-causing chemical.

A Maine man says he was “speechless” after he received the 2001 high school class ring of his daughter, who lost her life to cancer five years ago at age 32

A community has rallied to support a young boy with cancer in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, after a shocking crime left him devastated. Nine-year-old Brayden Tryon, who is battling leukemia, planted a sunflower seed last year with friends to see if it would grow, and it did. For him, it was much more than just a sunflower. Brayden says he would…

A 9-year-old battling leukemia is getting support from his community in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, after a shocking crime.

He may never catch a pass at Alumni Stadium, but Jack Giorgio is an inspiration to the team.