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Calling out colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men and women in the United States, with 151,030 new...
Cancer, Colorectal Cancer
Kathy Bates is figuring out how to live with lymphedema
When award-winning actress Kathy Bates was featured on the cover of NIH MedlinePlus magazine in 2016, she spoke about her experience...
Lymphedema
New treatments possible for a rare childhood cancer
Thanks to new research, children with the rare childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma, or RMS, may be able to receive more targeted...
Cancer in Children
4 unique challenges of childhood cancer research
Treatments for several types of childhood cancer have improved over the past decades. For other types, progress has been limited....
Cancer in Children
Childhood cancer: By the numbers
Survival rates for most childhood cancers have improved in recent decades and improvement has been especially dramatic for a few...
Cancer in Children
The Children's Inn at NIH gives families hope for more than 30 years
For children and young adults with rare diseases, The Children's Inn on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus...
Cancer in Children
The youngest patients, the toughest battles
The survival rate for children diagnosed with cancer has risen from just 10% in the 1950s to nearly 85% today. That's...
Cancer in Children
The legacy of the National Cancer Act: 50 years later
In 1971, President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act as part of the War on Cancer. In honor of the act...
Cancer
A clinical trial and your caring heart mean everything to Terran and her family
When Terran, 14, passed out in school, an ambulance took her to the hospital. Scans revealed two large blood clots in...
Cancer in Children
Could genetic screening help catch ovarian cancer earlier?
Scientists like Christina Annunziata, M.D., Ph.D., at the Center for Cancer Research and others at the National Cancer...
Ovarian CancerPersonal Story
Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller: Accepting help was essential to ovarian cancer recovery
Gymnast Shannon Miller captivated the world on her way to Olympic gold. Now the seven-time Olympic medalist and women's...
Ovarian Cancer, Celebrity, Personal Story, Hero Feature, Women
Triathlete on winning the cancer race
In 2018, Leslie Heffernan, then 58, was training for a triathlon. The Massachusetts resident has always been active and ran, swam, and...
Ovarian Cancer, Personal Story, Women