CHICAGO (CBS) --A California doctor who was battling advanced-stage lung cancer is now cancer-free, after surgeons at Northwestern Memorial Hospital completed the first-ever lung and liver transplant ...

Authors highlight key aspects of the California Cancer Care Equity Act, including its focus on Medi-Cal beneficiaries, the requirement for managed care plans to contract with specialized cancer ...

SACRAMENTO -- An estimated one in eight women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, killing on average 42,000 women a year in the United States. What if there was a vaccine that would ...

Bailey is a former breast cancer surgeon and board chair of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners. In 2017, at the age of 42, Susan Whitehead was diagnosed with an early form of breast cancer after ...

The Providence South Division Cancer Institute, serving the health organization’s 17 California hospitals, earned national recognition this week as it was rated among some of the nation’s premier ...

As firefighters battled the catastrophic blazes in Los Angeles County in January, California’s U.S. senators, Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla, signed onto legislation with a simple aim: Provide federal ...

Rep. John Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove), shown here in 2019, said Monday that he is receiving treatment for multiple myeloma, a rare form of blood cancer. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press) ...

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FIRST CLINICAL TRIAL OF A NEW CANCER DRUG FOR CATS. AND IT COULD HAVE APPLICATIONS FOR HUMANS. YEAH, IT’S INTERESTING. SCIENTISTS AT UC DAVIS AND UC SAN FRANCISCO HAVE TREATED CATS WITH SQUAMOUS CELL ...

Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) announced he was diagnosed with blood cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. Garamendi, 79, said he was diagnosed with a “treatable” form of blood cancer on Monday. He began ...

NEW ORLEANS - Researchers at the LSU LCMC Health Cancer Center have published groundbreaking findings in the medical journal ...

ORGANS, INCLUDING HIS STOMACH. LACING UP SHOES TO GO FOR A RUN DID NOT COME EASY FOR TOMMASO WILKINS. WHEN I FIRST STARTED, THERE WAS MY MIND WOULD TELL ME OVER AND OVER LIKE I WANT TO STOP. I WANT TO ...