Cancer

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  • I can't get home to see my mom before she dies

    By the time you read this, she'll probably be gone. Why couldn't I be by her side?
  • The Salon Interview: Elizabeth Edwards

    On her confrontation with Ann Coulter, why she backs gay marriage -- and why Edwards is a better choice for women than Hillary Clinton.
  • Genetic mutations may not mean deadlier cancer

    Promising news for women with BRCA mutations.
  • Attack of the 5-year-old moms!

    Doctors have artificially matured egg cells harvested from prepubescent girls. Great advance for cancer patients, or ethical nightmare in the making?
  • Ovarian cancer: Silent no more

    New information about symptoms may assist crucial early detection.
  • Scum-sucking epicure

    I'm secretly addicted to spirulina. It tastes mossy, costs a fortune and makes my lips green, but this highbrow pond scum may turn out to be a wonder algae.
  • Guarding boys with Gardasil?

    The debate over giving boys the HPV vaccine continues. Plus, more good cancer-prevention news.
  • This is my brain on chemo

    My breast cancer treatment left me in a mental fog. As more of us survive cancer, will our post-chemo problems spawn a new branch of medicine?
  • The "Living With Cancer" election

    Elizabeth Edwards has been diagnosed with cancer. So have four of the Republicans running for president.
  • White House: Tony Snow's cancer has returned

    Just a week ago, Snow was offering prayers for Elizabeth Edwards.
  • Developments in the Duke case and more

    Sen. Barack Obama calls for a federal investigation into the handling of the case.
  • I've got breast cancer and I don't want to live

    I wanted to die even before I got sick. But my family will kill me if I just give up hope!
  • Men want in on HPV vaccine, too!

    Some are getting impatient waiting for proof of the vaccine's efficacy in men.
  • Merck calls off HPV campaign

    Will states still adopt mandatory HPV vaccinations?
  • Big Pharma reads the Chinese Web

    Let a hundred blogs about cancer bloom, and then figure out how to seduce the "e-fluencers."
  • Under the sign of cancer

    A father's death, a saga of medical triumph; Adam Wishart's "One in Three" remarkably blends two tales into one.
  • Fruit and fiber?

    A new study suggests that consuming lots of roughage may protect premenopausal women from breast cancer.
  • Censoring a cancer victim's breasts

    A PBS documentary prudishly blurs out a dying woman's nipples.
  • No more Pap smears?

    The new HPV vaccine may relegate cervical swipes to the trash bin.
  • What else we're reading

    Western publishers veil Muslim women, a girl gang rocks Chile, a New York doctor plots the nation's first womb transplant and more.
  • Nixon goes to China, the Linux version

    Microsoft and Novell make a deal to support free software?
  • Lone Star lady

    Ann Richards and I saw everything on Broadway and loved to rag about George W. Bush. They were some of the happiest years of my life.
  • Can I finally reconcile with my dying brother?

    There are so many things I need to talk about, but he says not to get too emotional.
  • Scotland the Grave

    Just in time to desecrate National Tartan Day, a study says Scotland is the "worst small country to live in." It's all Roger Moore's fault.
  • Betting on Ann Richards

    At a bash for Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards picks her mother in the fight against cancer.
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