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Dr. Frank Frizelle has operated on countless patients in his career as a colorectal surgeon. But there’s one case that stayed with him. In 2014, he was treating a woman in her late 20s suffering from ...

For over ten years, Deacon Gray has mentored young comics as the New Talent Coordinator at Comedy Works. Under his stewardship, the scene has flourished, with hundreds of new comics flooding the stage ...

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Clea Shearer opens up about her cancer journey. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Courtesy of John Shearer) I found my cancer on my own. While I was in the shower, I felt something in my breast.

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Doctors are seeing colon cancer in people in their 20s and 30s. New research suggests it starts in infancy.

Cancer stories, as we’ve long told them, tend to follow one of two arcs: diagnosis, then a brave fight against the disease resulting either in survival or death. But journalist Jonathan Gluck’s story ...

Dr. Richard Deming discusses participation in a clinical trial on pain management in cancer patients with Sheryl Vanderschoor of Des Moines at the MercyOne Cancer Center in Des Moines on May 6.

For more than a century, scientists have argued over what really drives cancer, yet the pieces of the puzzle have rarely fit together cleanly. I now see artificial intelligence not as a magical answer ...

People often say that miracles happen every day. But several miracles happening to one person? That fairly sums up Luis Perez’s cancer journey. In 2016, Perez, a resident of Chelsea, was diagnosed ...