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Cancer

  1. health
    When a Mammogram Misses Breast CancerWomen with dense breasts can be blindsided by advanced diagnoses — even after years of negative screenings.
    By Dyan Neary
  2. health
    Good News About Brain CancerImmunotherapy is making tumors melt away.
    By Christopher Cox
  3. on with kara swisher
    Chemist Carolyn Bertozzi on Biology’s Dark MatterThe 2022 Nobel Prize winner tells Kara Swisher why cancer cells are a lot like M&Ms.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  4. john mccain
    John McCain Ceases Cancer Treatment, Prepares for the EndThe “progress of disease and the inexorable advance of age render their verdict,” the senator’s family said in a statement.
    By Eric Levitz
  5. plot twists
    Martin Shkreli’s Super-Expensive Drug Has a New, Cheap CompetitorTuring Pharmaceuticals just got disrupted.
    By Eric Levitz
  6. oh canada!
    Rob Ford Has CancerThe tumor that caused him to drop out of the mayor’s race is malignant.
    By Katie Zavadski
  7. grand central station
    You Could Have Walked Through a Huge Colon in Grand Central TodayFor a good cause.
    By Jen Kirby
  8. blog-stained wretches
    Bill and Emma Keller Write Matching Cancer Columns, Face Internet WrathCancer patient Lisa Bonchek Adams and her supporters battle married writers.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  9. sad things
    Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy Has Lung Cancer“I am a fighter.”
    By Dan Amira
  10. oracle of omaha
    Warren Buffett Has CancerHe says it’s “not remotely life-threatening.”
    By Joe Coscarelli
  11. feel-good stories
    Lamborghini Batman Is a Real-Life HeroCheers up children with terminal illnesses.
    By Alex Klein
  12. international intrigue
    There’s Nothing Hugo Chavez Can’t Blame on the United States“It would not be strange if they had developed the technology to induce cancer and nobody knew about it until now.”
    By Dan Amira
  13. health
    HPV Vaccine Not Just for Girls AnymoreA medical panel recommends young boys get the shot, too.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  14. booze
    Turns Out Drinking Even a Little Bit Can Maybe Give You CancerEven one pint of beer can raise your risk, says new research.
    By Patrick Huguenin
  15. the apple of our eye
    Steve Jobs Is Receiving Cancer Treatment at a Clinic in Stanford, According to the National EnquirerDoctors tell the ‘National Enquirer’ that his cancer appears terminal.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  16. smoking
    Only Smoked That One Cigarette? Your DNA May Never Forgive YouYour DNA? Damaged goods.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  17. sad things
    Elizabeth Edwards DiesThe social advocate and presidential candidate’s wife succumbed to cancer at 61.
    By Chris Rovzar
  18. sad things
    Elizabeth Edwards Takes a Turn for the WorseDoctors say further treatment of her cancer would be “unproductive.”
    By Dan Amira
  19. white men with deep mediterranean tans
    AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Will Make Cancer His BitchDespite a cancer diagnosis, AIG’s CEO soldiers on.
    By Jessica Pressler
  20. hitch-22
    Christopher Hitchens Will Not Be Participating in ‘Everybody Pray for Hitchens Day’But that doesn’t mean you have to!
    By Chris Rovzar
  21. great divorces
    ‘Fake’ Cancer Bride: I Do Too Have Leukemia!I just choose to treat it with “water, the right foods and exercise”!
    By Chris Rovzar
  22. ink-stained wretches
    ‘In Whatever Kind of a ‘Race’ Life May Be, I Have Very Abruptly Become a Finalist’Christopher Hitchens reflects on his battle with cancer.
    By Chris Rovzar
  23. ink-stained wretches
    Christopher Hitchens Undergoing Cancer TreatmentHe says: I’ve “been advised by my physician that I must undergo a course of chemotherapy on my esophagus. This advice seems persuasive to me.”
    By Chris Rovzar
  24. divorce famous-people style
    Dennis Hopper Is Having the Worst Fifth Divorce EverThis is why combining divorce and cancer is not a good idea.
    By Jessica Pressler
  25. ballsy crimes
    Bernie Madoff’s Prison Experience Keeps Getting WorseA new, special kind of torment is coming in the mail.
    By Dan Amira
  26. Chris Dodd Has Prostate CancerThe Connecticut senator’s condition was caught early, and he will likely undergo surgery in the coming weeks.
    By Chris Rovzar
  27. it just happened
    Senator Ted Kennedy Has Brain Tumor, Doctors SayHe is currently resting comfortably, reports his family, and a plan of treatment is still uncertain.