Community rallies around Palatine family after mother of four is diagnosed with cancer
A story of hope and perseverance in Palatine. One of the happiest days of Kurt and Ashley Conley’s life was filled with fear.
Northwestern Medicine doctors perform first ever double-lung transplant on lung cancer patient
“I'm 54, I gotta go enjoy life now. This is the biggest chance I have. The biggest chance I got, ya know, to stay alive. Enjoy life,” Albert Khoury said.
Pfizer recalls some blood pressure drug products over elevated levels of cancer-causing impurity
Pfizer said it was recalling some blood pressure medication and two generic versions Monday over elevated levels of a potentially cancer-causing impurity.
Chicago-area company sold unapproved drugs that claimed to treat diseases, including cancer: prosecutors
A Waukegan-based company has been ordered to stop distributing nutritional supplements that they claimed would cure, treat or prevent various diseases including cancer.
Taller people could be at higher risk for colorectal cancer, study suggests
Researchers found that the individuals who were taller had a 24% higher risk of developing colorectal cancer as opposed to their shorter counterparts.
Proposal in Illinois would fund breast cancer screenings, treatment to patients without insurance
A new proposal in the state legislature would funnel money from mammogram awareness license plates to the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, which provides free cancer screenings and treatment to women who don’t have insurance.
Cancer patients cured a decade after gene therapy, doctors say
'THIS IS A CURE': In 2010, doctors treated Doug Olson’s leukemia with an experimental gene therapy that transformed some of his blood cells into cancer killers. More than a decade later, there’s no sign of cancer in his body.
Biden aims to cut cancer deaths by 50% over next 25 years with moonshot initiative
President Joe Biden is relaunching his “Cancer Moonshot” initiative with a goal of reducing cancer deaths by 50% over the next 25 years and to ”end cancer as we know it.”
Young cancer survivor meets nursing student who saved his life
A young cancer survivor had the opportunity to meet the Ohio nursing student who saved his life.
ESPN Bears reporter Jeff Dickerson dies of cancer at 44
Jeff Dickerson, a beloved sports reporter who covered the Chicago Bears for ESPN for two decades, has died. He was 44.
