April Carr said doctors initially questioned whether she was pregnant before discovering a rare abdominal cancer.

What makes a rare cancer rare? Sometimes, it’s the person’s age. All pediatric cancers, for instance, are rare cancers because cancer in the very young is highly unusual. Other times, it’s the ...

A Durham woman diagnosed with a rare cancer of the appendix is taking on the London Marathon on memory of her father-in-law. Emily Webster was diagnosed with a rare tumour in her appendix during a ...