Cancer

Cancer is mentioned in 2,342 articles and has appeared on 16 TIME covers
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A scanning electron microscopic image of invading cancer cells and their characteristic spikes or pseudopodia.
While more people die of heart disease in the U.S. than cancer, cancer is still one of the most feared diagnoses a person can receive. There are good reasons for this. Cancer's ability to cause pain is notorious and some of the treatments used to fight the disease can themselves make you very sick. Fortunately, ... Read More

Cancer Articles

Found: 2342 Articles
  • Dec. 7, 2009 | By Alice Park
    Why the furor over the new screening guidelines could be a sign of things to come
  • Nov. 30, 2009
    Yuri Zarakhovich's life was full of skulduggery, danger and crisis. He did, after all, report for TIME as the Soviet empire decayed, fell and tried to resurrect itself as the new Russia. It was two decades of journalistic drama on one of history's biggest stages, with Zarakhovich dodging bullets and traveling from one breakaway republic ...
  • Nov. 24, 2009 | By Robert Horn / Bangkok
    Less than two years after reaching the zenith of his political career, Samak Sundaravej, a former Thai Prime Minister known for his acid tongue and weekly gourmet cooking show, died of cancer on Tuesday morning
  • Nov. 17, 2009 | By Alice Park
    In a turnaround from long-standing guidelines from the American Cancer Society, a U.S. task force recommends that women begin regular breast-cancer screening at age 50, not 40
  • Nov. 3, 2009 | By AP / MARILYNN MARCHIONE
    Men may protect more than their hearts if they keep cholesterol in line: Their chances of getting aggressive prostate cancer may be lower, new research suggests
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Cancer Photo Essays & Graphics

  • Cartoons of the Week: November 21, 2009 - November 27, 2009
    November 21, 2009 - November 27, 2009
  • Interactive Graphic: How A Vaccine Battles Cancer: The immune system is good at battling most diseases, but cancer is equally good at eluding our defenses. New vaccines are designed to deliver the one-two punch: helping the immune system better spot cancer, then prodding it to attack the disease.
    The immune system is good at battling most diseases, but cancer is equally good at eluding our defenses. New vaccines are designed to deliver the one-two punch: helping the immune system better spot cancer, then prodding it to attack the disease.

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