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Amanpour Faces Third Cancer Battle, Urges Vigilance

CNN anchor, 67, says early symptoms for ovarian cancer led her to seek treatment

(Newser) - CNN's Christiane Amanpour is facing a third round of ovarian cancer, she revealed after a month's absence from the air. Speaking on the Changing the Ovarian Cancer Story podcast that aired Thursday, Amanpour described her diagnosis as a "fairly rare" form of the disease but emphasized that...

Child Had a 5% Chance of Living. This Device Saved Them

Young patient with leukemia, organ failure recovers after experimental treatment with SCD solution

(Newser) - Doctors at Michigan Medicine have reported a medical first: saving a young child in septic shock and experiencing failure of five organ systems using a new device called the Selective Cytopheretic Device (SCD), made by SeaStar Medical. The case, published in Pediatric Nephrology , involved a child with a prior...

Jane Fonda Shares Diagnosis: 'Cancer Is a Teacher'
Jane Fonda Shares
Huge News With Fans
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Dec 16, 2022 12:39 AM CST

Jane Fonda Shares Huge News With Fans

Actress and activist says her cancer is in remission

(Newser) - Jane Fonda received an amazing gift for the holidays and her upcoming 85th birthday: Her cancer is in remission. "I am feeling so blessed, so fortunate. I thank all of you who prayed and sent good thoughts my way. I am confident that it played a role in the...

Some Cancer Patients May Be Able to Skip Chemo
Some Cancer Patients Can
Skip Chemo, Radiation
new studies
Jun 7, 2022 11:45 AM CDT

Some Cancer Patients Can Skip Chemo, Radiation

Studies point way to less treatment for some sufferers of colon and breast cancer

(Newser) - After surgery, some cancer patients can safely skip radiation or chemotherapy, according to two studies exploring shorter, gentler cancer care. Researchers are looking for ways to precisely predict which cancer patients can avoid unneeded treatment to cut down on harmful side effects and unnecessary costs, per the AP . One new...

Teen Forced to Undergo Chemo Dies at 22

Cassandra Callender fought cancer for 5 years

(Newser) - Cassandra Callender, who was forced by Connecticut courts as a teenager to undergo chemotherapy for cancer, has died after a five-year battle with the disease, her mother said Thursday. She was 22, the AP reports. Callender, of Windsor Locks, died Tuesday at home, where she had been in hospice care...

Neighbors Have Sweet Surprise for Young Cancer Survivor

It's a pandemic-friendly welcome

(Newser) - Courtney "Coco" Johnson didn't think there would be much of a celebration when she finished chemotherapy this week amid the coronavirus pandemic. The 15-year-old was very, very wrong. Coco, whose eighth-grade graduation last June came on the same day as her diagnosis with a Ewing sarcoma in her...

On His Way to Chemo, Guy Made a Very Lucky Stop

NC man wins $200K from scratch-off lottery ticket right before last round of cancer treatment

(Newser) - It was already set to be a good day for Ronnie Foster, but a last-minute pit stop was the icing on the cake. The North Carolina man, a retired Department of Transportation worker from Pink Hill who has colon cancer, was headed to his very last chemotherapy treatment on Tuesday...

Alex Trebek: I'm Back on Chemo
New Cancer
Update From
Alex Trebek
Sep 17, 2019 10:45 AM CDT

New Cancer Update From Alex Trebek

'Jeopardy' host says his 'numbers' spiked, he's back on chemo

(Newser) - Nearly four months ago, Alex Trebek delivered the "mind-boggling" news to fans that his pancreatic cancer was "near remission." The Jeopardy! host was doing so well that his doctors even halted his chemo treatment, opting to use immunotherapy instead. Now, however, a bit of a setback: On...

Judge: Boy Can't Go Home With Parents Who Halted His Chemo

Noah McAdams, now 4, must remain with his grandparents, judge rules

(Newser) - The preschooler taken from his parents when they halted his chemotherapy is no closer to going home—the parents of Noah McAdams, now 4, were denied custody of their son in a ruling Monday in Florida, WFLA reports. Noah was 3 when he was removed from his parents' care and...

Jonas Brothers Surprise Fan Who Missed Concert for Chemotherapy

Band visited teen in Pennsylvania hospital

(Newser) - Pennsylvania teenager Lily Jordan had to miss the Jonas Brothers' concert in Hershey on Saturday night because she was in the hospital for chemotherapy treatment. So they came to her instead. The brothers paid the 16-year-old a surprise visit before the concert after fans tagged the band in her social...

3-Year-Old Taken From Parents After They Stop His Chemo

Authorities say boy's life is in danger; family says chemo is too 'brutal'

(Newser) - Joshua McAdams and Taylor Bland-Ball's 3-year-old son, Noah, has leukemia. But his parents don't want him to get chemotherapy, and they've lost custody of him as a result. "We want him to be treated with something that has less side effects," Bland-Ball tells WFLA . "...

Potential Future for Chemo Patients: a Man-Made Ovary
Scientists Unveil
Man-Made Ovary
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Jul 2, 2018 9:15 AM CDT

Scientists Unveil Man-Made Ovary

Artificial ovary implanted in mouse could help women who've gone through chemo

(Newser) - News on the fertility front may offer hope in the future for women who have to undergo chemotherapy or radiation during cancer treatment. Per the Guardian , scientists have created an artificial ovary out of human tissue and eggs, and that ovary's performance on tests is encouraging. Susanne Pors, a...

Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip the Chemo
Many Breast Cancer
Patients Can Skip the Chemo
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Jun 3, 2018 7:43 AM CDT

Many Breast Cancer Patients Can Skip the Chemo

Up to 70K Americans per year could be spared treatment, massive study finds

(Newser) - Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, doctors are reporting in a landmark study that used genetic testing to gauge each patient's risk. The study is the largest ever done of breast cancer...

Giant Bell Will Ring Every Time a Kid Finishes Chemo

It's linked to St. Louis Children's Hospital

(Newser) - A giant bell on a billboard in St. Louis will ring every time a child completes chemotherapy at a local hospital, per the AP . The 12-foot-tall metal bell went up Wednesday on a billboard over Interstate 44 that reads "Childhood wins another round against cancer." Hospital staff will...

What Ronnie Wood Wouldn't Have Done to Fight Cancer

There would've been no chemo if cancer had spread: 'This hair wasn't going anywhere'

(Newser) - Three months ago, Ronnie Wood was diagnosed with lung cancer, right before he turned 70. In a recent interview with the Daily Mail's Event Magazine , Wood, the other hard-living, hard-partying guitarist in the Rolling Stones, says he refused chemotherapy as a treatment option because he wanted to keep his...

Cancer Patients' Gray Hair Darkened While on New Drugs

14 patients in lung cancer study saw color return to their hair as side effect

(Newser) - Cancer patients' gray hair unexpectedly turned youthfully dark while taking novel drugs, and it has doctors scratching their heads. The AP reports chemotherapy is notorious for making hair fall out, but the 14 patients involved were all being treated with new immunotherapy drugs that work differently and have different side...

If Dad Smokes, He May Pass an Unwanted Trait to Kids
Men Who Smoke Affect
Future Kids in Surprising Way
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Feb 15, 2017 11:45 AM CST

Men Who Smoke Affect Future Kids in Surprising Way

Life-saving drugs may be less effective for them, study suggests

(Newser) - When research began to trickle out 10 years ago suggesting that what we do today can affect the health of our unborn children, it was largely "considered heretical," medical biochemistry professor Dr. Oliver Rando tells the Boston Herald . Not anymore. Habits like cigarette smoking have since been shown...

Studies: Cooling Caps Help Chemo Patients Keep Hair

Up to two-thirds of breast cancer patients kept more than half their hair

(Newser) - Cooling caps are massively popular with European chemo patients and have been making inroads into the US , but two studies published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association offer some of the first clinical proof of their effectiveness. In one study , approximately two-thirds of breast cancer patients lost...

Strong Chemo Plus Stem Cell Transplant May Halt MS

Study used extremely small sample size, but results are encouraging

(Newser) - The sample size was quite small, but research on patients with multiple sclerosis shows promising results on stopping the progression of the incurable disease that causes the immune system to attack the coating around nerve fibers (and the fibers themselves) in the brain and spinal cord, the BBC reports. Per...

Mom Won't Treat Brain Tumor Until She Gives Birth

'The baby saved me. Now it's my turn to save him': New York woman

(Newser) - For Kim Vaillancourt, pregnant while staving off aggressive rare brain cancer, it comes down to this: "The baby saved me. Now it's my turn to save him." Vaillancourt was diagnosed with glioblastoma—deadly and fast-growing tumors known to reappear within eight to 12 weeks—after going to...

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