Cancer

“I very recently learned that I have breast cancer,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., announced in a statement on Monday.In a note on her Tumblr page,…

Two sets of parents who lost sons to brain cancer last year were in the House chamber for the State of the Union speech when President Barack Obama…

Almost one in every 10 children with cancer was born with an inherited genetic mutation predisposing them to develop the disease, according to a joint…

African-American men are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than men of any other racial group, but a group of St. Louis-area…

Updated 6/24/15 after the Corps open house - Area residents packed into a room at the Hazelwood Civic Center last night to find out the bad news about…

If there is one word to describe Teri Griege it would be ‘resilient.’ She began running marathons in her forties after conquering an alcohol addiction and…

When two new drugs for hepatitis C hit the market, they were a game-changer. About 95 percent of hepatitis C patients can be cured with either Harvoni or…

Updated 1/29/15 after the meetingMore than a hundred people packed into a room at the Hazelwood Civic Center East Thursday night to hear the U.S. Army…

Researchers at Washington University are conducting some of their first human trials for a new cancer drug that would treat one of the most lethal forms…

After years of concern, residents of Elmwood Park aren't any closer to knowing if they are being harmed by chemical vapors.In the late 1980s, the…