Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...

The retired welder and pipe fitter nearly died from a bout of food poisoning due to his weak immune system, and at one point ...

On Aug. 17, 2023, Mackenzie Paul was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. Now terminal, she shares the art project that she ...

April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

The 45-year-old mother of two says the hardest aspect of her vulvar cancer diagnosis has been coming to terms with leaving ...

There is a taboo about colon cancer,” the Overland Park native said. “People don’t want to be informed. People want to ignore.” ...

When terminal cancer patients choose to die at home, as opposed to staying in the hospital, they tend to live longer, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer. The study was conducted ...

A team at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has performed a successful liver transplant in a patient with terminal colorectal cancer. The procedure was made possible through Northwestern’s new ...

Many terminally ill patients think clinical trials give them a fighting chance. May 21, 2008— -- Three weeks ago, 38-year-old Allan Shallenberger from Los Angeles received the same grim diagnosis ...

As FAA flight reductions and airport delays grow amid the government shutdown, a Tennessee woman battling metastatic breast ...

Many terminal cancer patients are not getting adequate pain relief early enough, according to a University of Leeds study. The researchers found that, on average, terminal cancer patients were given ...