Cancer Drugs Approved Quickly Often Fail To Measure Up Later Regulators give many cancer drugs a fast track to market while requiring drugmakers to do more studies after approval. Researchers have found the follow-up studies frequently come up short. Richard Harris Play AudioListen 4 mins
California Jury Finds Roundup Caused Man's Cancer After five days of deliberation the jury concluded the weed killer was a "substantial factor" in causing non-Hodgkins lymphoma in the plaintiff. It's the second verdict against the Bayer product. Vanessa Romo
'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Says He Has Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatic cancer has low survival rates, but Trebek stayed positive and joked about his three-year hosting obligation under his contract. James Doubek
Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Mostly Disappoint In Long-Awaited Research Results After years of debate, a major government funded study failed to find any overall benefit of taking widely used supplements to protect against heart disease or cancer. Patti Neighmond Play AudioListen 4 mins
She Chose To 'Go Flat' And Wants Other Breast Cancer Survivors To Know They Can Too After her double mastectomy, writer Catherine Guthrie came to embrace her new body, without breast reconstruction. But, she has learned, women have to push the medical system to support this choice. Rachel D. Cohen
10 months later: 'There's hope after a cancer diagnosis' Ten months ago, Alexes Harris' health was precarious . She'd just had a stem cell transplant in the hopes of combating a rare form of leukemia. The... Katherine Banwell Play AudioListen 3 mins
The article that changed one cancer researcher's career path Dr. Fred Appelbaum started his career in the 1970s when leukemia patients were given months to live. He worked with Dr. Don Thomas, a researcher at Fred... Ruby de Luna Play AudioListen 3 mins
Seattle doctor’s radical idea saves 70,000 people a year There was a time when the cure for leukemia was almost as lethal as the disease. Before bone marrow transplants, patients were treated with arsenic or... Ruby de Luna Play AudioListen 7 mins
Take a selfie, help screen yourself for cancer University of Washington researchers have created a smartphone app that could help users screen themselves for a range of diseases, including pancreatic... Kate OConnell Play AudioListen 2 mins
