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SYDNEY, September 24, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Older cancer survivors are more likely to experience strokes, heart attacks and hospitalization for heart failure, a new Australian study has found. [...]

Byline: MELENA RYZIK For the last two years or so, the artist Prune Nourry has thought of herself as a sculpture. Ms. Nourry, who is French and splits her time [...]

Exercise could improve the life expectancy of adults who survive cancer as children, even if the activity begins years after treatments end, according to an inspiring new study. But the [...]

Cancer can, and sometimes does, strike twice. It famously happened to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court, who was successfully treated for colon cancer in 1999 and then [...]

Byline: Ross Lydall Health Editor A MAJOR study is to look at whether talking therapy can help cancer survivors cope with fears of a relapse and speed up their recovery [...]

MANHASSET: The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research has issued the following press release: - Feinstein Institute for Medical Research Assistant Professor Catherine Benedict, PhD, has been awarded a five-year, $693,000 [...]

Q. Should you be listed as an organ donor on your driver's license if you are a cancer survivor? A. Maybe. The medical team considering organs for transplant after such [...]

WASHINGTON, Jan 22, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An American study suggests regular exercise could add to the life expectancy of breast cancer survivors because it lowers their heightened risk [...]

Byline: BROOKS HAYS CHICAGO, April 17 (UPI) -- Those who best prostate cancer don't come out of the battle unscathed. As is the case for most cancers, the treatment for [...]

Like many adults who survived childhood cancer, Karen Cormier always assumed she would never get pregnant. Ms. Cormier, 39, developed a rare form of kidney cancer when she was 5 [...]

Byline: KATHRYN DOYLE; Reuters MENTAL HEALTH NEW YORK -- Survivors of cancers of the head and neck, including those of the tongue and thyroid, often suffer from depression but rarely [...]

Byline: Matthew Santoni June 03--Survivors of pediatric cancer and their family members traded the roller coaster rides of transplants, surgery and therapy for actual roller coaster rides on Sunday at [...]

Q.Can a long-term survivor of melanoma donate organs? A. For most cancers, the longer one is cancer-free, the lower the likelihood that the disease will return, said Dr. James V. [...]

Byline: Beth L. Jokinen May 7--LIMA -- A new local program is offering breast cancer survivors the physical and mental benefits of yoga. Free yoga therapy classes will be offered [...]

Byline: HAYLEY MICK EXERCISE / BENEFITS As the course progressed, chemotherapy's aftershocks no longer hindered Gale McCombie's downward dog. She even had the strength to get up off the mat [...]

Byline: AP Chicago -- Roger Ebert plans to attend his annual festival for overlooked movies this week, returning to public view for the first time since having cancer surgery. The [...]

India, Aug. 6 -- NewMediaWire via WebwireStudy Highlights:Cancer survivors who had chest radiation therapy are nearly twice as likely to die in the years following major heart surgery than patients [...]

India, April 22 -- Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida and University of Kentucky have found that breast cancer survivors who have had [...]

India, Dec. 3 -- Jane Armer, professor in the Sinclair School of Nursing, says patients at risk for lymphedema can exercise if they closely monitor their activities.Exercise can be beneficial [...]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Cancer survivors have more than double the risk of getting a second primary cancer of the same type than those who have not had [...]

ATLANTA, March 10 (UPI) -- By 2007, the number of U.S. cancer survivors grew to 11.7 million, up from 9.8 million in 2001 and 3 million in 1971, federal health [...]

India, March 6 -- St. Louis, MO, March 4, 2011 - The combined effects of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy may increase the risk of bone fractures in breast cancer survivors. [...]

India, Feb. 20 -- St. Louis, MO, February 18, 2011 - Cancer survivors die of non-cancer-related causes at much higher rates than the general public. In 2008, the U.S. economic [...]

Mar. 8--OXFORD -- A free exercise and recreation therapy workshop for breast cancer survivors will be held from 5:30-8 p.m. March 17 at Granville Medical Center, 1010 College Street, Oxford. [...]

May 15--Melissa Frantz doesn't buy the state's logic that there's nothing unusual about cancer rates in Muhlenberg Township. Frantz, a 1992 Muhlenberg High School graduate and Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor, said [...]