Cancer

Cancer is mentioned in 2,055 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: 2055 Articles
  • 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. 2, 2009 | By Harriet Barovick
    10 ESSENTIAL STORIES
  • Oct. 12, 2009 | By Adi Narayan
    A new survey highlights the troublesome lack of oversight of teenagers who use cancer-causing tanning beds
  • May. 18, 2009 | By Sanjay Gupta, M.D.
    The sunshine vitamin may help protect against cancer and flu, but how much do we need daily?
  • Mar. 16, 2009
    DIED A 22-year veteran of the British soap opera EastEnders, Wendy Richard, 65, endured years of tabloid gossip (sometimes fueled by her husbands). Despite alleged attempts by producers to write her character off the show, Richard, who received a cancer diagnosis in 1996, didn't leave until 2006, saying it was "time to move on." • ...
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Cancer Photo Essays & Graphics

  • Cartoons of the Week: November 21, 2009 - November 27, 2009
    November 21, 2009 - November 27, 2009
  • The State of Cancer: A confounding thing about cancer is that it's actually many diseases, which makes prognosis and prevention variable. All this makes keeping track of cancer stats tricky, but trends emerge from the numerical noise.
    A confounding thing about cancer is that it's actually many diseases, which makes prognosis and prevention variable. All this makes keeping track of cancer stats tricky, but trends emerge from the numerical noise.

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