Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.
Enoki mushrooms, a tasty variety commonly sold in grocery stores, were one of the first mushrooms studied for preventing cancer.
Where my cancer was, if it moves just a tiny bit... towards the area where there's no return, it stays, then there's no turning back.
This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
Of course, no one doubts McCain's personal tenacity, from braving torture to overcoming cancer. Yet plenty of nonpartisan observers doubt his credibility.
When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.
Once I overcame breast cancer, I wasn't afraid of anything anymore.
Nearly every one of the genes that turns out to be a key player in cancer has a vital role in the normal physiology of an organism. The genes that enable our brains and blood cells to develop are implicated in cancer.
I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
Scientists suggest that the link between consuming poultry and cancer spread may be due to carcinogens in cooked meat. For unknown reasons, these carcinogens build up more in the muscles of chickens and turkeys than in those of other animals.
Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.
The time has come to seriously ask whether antioxidant use much more likely causes than prevents cancer.
I'm no different than others with cancer. I just happen to play professional baseball. I'm part of those statistics that cancer has touched as well.
Lifestyle changes may slow, stop, or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer.
Studies show that Avastin can prolong the lives of patients with late-stage breast and lung cancer by several months when the drug is combined with existing therapies.
After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
I began seeing my wife, Kathleen, while I was undergoing treatment for prostate cancer.
I have heard of people dying from prostate cancer, and they are the unlucky ones, the people who didn't know they had got it, and it went on the rampage.
If I could turn back the clock, magically deleting my prostate cancer, the surgery I needed and its complications, would I do so? It seems an odd question. But I find it surprisingly hard to answer.
The cancer is in remission, and I will shortly go on a drug maintenance regimen to keep it there.