Cancer Treatment

Actress and activist Marlo Thomas is proud that this year St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s Thanks and Giving campaign celebrates its 20th anniversary and passes the fundraising milestone of $1 billion to support the hospital’s efforts to provide free medical care to children with cancer.

Heman Bekele, a freshman at Woodson High School in Northern Virginia, spent his summer break working to cure cancer. He was named “America’s Top Young Scientist” for creating a bar of soap designed to fight low-grade skin cancer. “I wanted to try to find a way for the entire world to be able to have an equitable and accessible...

Fairfax County ninth grader Heman Bekele was named America’s top young scientist after he created a soap designed to treat low-grade skin cancer. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.

For Breast Cancer Awareness month, Martina Navratilova urges women to be diligent about preventive care and cancer screenings after battling two forms of cancer at the same time earlier this year.

At the People’s Choice Country Awards, Country Icon Recipient Toby Keith detailed the ups and downs of his cancer journey.

The vaccine has been successfully studied in lab animals for decades, but this is the very first human trial. News4’s Shawn Yancy reports.

“Parrotheads” and casual fans of Caribbean living mourned the death of “Margaritaville” singer Jimmy Buffett over the weekend, who died at the age of 76 after a years-long battle with a rare and aggressive form of skin cancer on Friday.

YouTube announced a new policy for combatting medical misinformation on the video-sharing platform.

Maria Menounos is reflecting on the many health and personal challenges she’s overcome while giving followers a peek into her life as a new mom to daughter Athena.

Targets for these experimental treatments include breast and lung cancer, with gains reported this year for deadly skin cancer melanoma and pancreatic cancer.

Although reconstructive surgery is not talked about enough, survivors of prostate cancer and traumatic injury deserve to be informed of the reconstructive options that they can explore to achieve a high quality of life.

The FDA has given Qilu Pharmaceutical permission to ship cisplatin to the U.S. to ease a national cancer drug shortage.

The list of cancer treatment drugs in short supply continues to grow to include a number of well-known treatments that are struggling to keep up in the face of supply chain issues.

The fact is, there may be other sources of lung cancer lurking in your home (or your genetics), but through education and awareness, it’s possible to improve treatment and survival rates.

President Joe Biden spoke on First Lady Jill Biden’s recovery after having surgery to remove two cancerous lesions near her eyes on Wednesday, saying there is a “0-1% chance of ever returning any cancer, so thank God she’s doing really well.”

New technology is making it possible for doctors in the DMV to diagnose a patient with lung cancer and treat them by surgically removing the tumor, all in the same day.

Doctors say the new technology can save lives, and save time. News4’s Eun Yang reports.

President Joe Biden is urging Americans to come together for a new “national purpose” — his administration’s effort to end cancer “as we know it.” At the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Biden on Monday channeled JFK’s famed moonshot speech 60 years ago, likening the space race to his own effort. Biden hopes to move the U.S. closer...

Actress and activist Jane Fonda revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “This is a very treatable cancer… so I feel very lucky.”