Pancreatic cancer survivor raises awareness

As a six-year survivor of pancreatic cancer, Diane Borrison knows she's in a select group. Pancreatic cancer is the fourth-leading cause of cancer deaths, it has the lowest survival rate of all cancers and only 6...

Canadian Cancer Statistics, 2012 - Cancer death rate down but increase in new cases

MONTREAL , May 9, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ - The cancer death rate is going down in Canada , resulting in nearly 100,000 lives saved in 20 years (from 1988 to 2007). These are two of the findings contained in ...

Gazette.Net: Woman honors deceased husband with lung cancer walk

Lung cancer... Ÿ Will be diagnosed in 226,000 people this year. Ÿ Is one of the most deadly cancers. The five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 89 percent; for colorectal cancer 64 percent; and for prostate cancer 99 percent. The five-year survival rate for lung cancer is 16 percent.

1,000 take part in walk to fight pancreatic cancer

A wave of purple swept through this town's shoreline park Sunday as more than 1,000 people participated in the third annual Westchester Pancreatic Cancer Research Walk.

American Behavior Still Drives Cancer Rates, Group Says

Americans are often getting cancer from their own behaviors—smoking, overeating, exercising too little—and could save their own lives if they took advantage of proven screening tests and vaccines, the American Cancer Society said on Thursday.