Cancer Treatment

Maine lobsters have long delighted tourists as the state’s most beloved seafood. But one company thinks the crustaceans can save human lives by providing their blood for use in new drugs.

Iran slammed the United States on Saturday for what it called an “inhumane” decision to bar its foreign minister, who was attending the U.N. summit meetings in New York, from visiting a hospitalized Iranian diplomat in the city. U.S. authorities were not allowing Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to visit U.N. ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi, who was undergoing cancer...

Whitaker Weinberger recieved a community-wide celebration for his 4th birthday. Molette Green reports.

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday night that her work on the bench saved her during her cancer treatments, as the judge was given a rock-star reception in the home state of the president who nominated her to the nation’s highest court. Ginsburg told a packed arena that she was “feeling very good tonight,” following the 86-year-old’s disclosure...

The Notorious RBG got a true rockstar welcome in D.C. during one of her first public appearances after cancer treatment.

Tommy McFly and Jummy Olabanji have the best ways to spend your weekend in the D.C. area.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has accepted an honorary degree from the University at Buffalo.

Stocks stumbled Friday as worries flared yet again that President Donald Trump’s trade war with China may be worsening. It was a fitting end to a wild week where markets zoomed down, up and down again as investors recalibrated by the minute how much the tensions will hurt the global economy. The S&P 500 dropped as much as 1.3% Friday...

Last September, President Donald Trump signed into law a bill allowing people with cancer to press pause on their federal student loan payments. More than nine months after the law took effect, borrowers still can’t access the cancer deferment. At issue seems to be this: The Department of Education has yet to provide the companies that administer its federal student...

Precise proton therapy can target tumors in hard to reach places without harming surrounding cells. News4’s Doreen Gentzler reports.

Former News4 anchor Joe Krebs has been fighting pancreatic cancer for almost two years. He’ll be at the Purple Stride Walk for Pancreatic Cancer Saturday. News4’s Barbara Harrison talked with about his treatment and how he’s doing now.

Australia’s ruling conservative coalition won a surprise victory in the country’s general election on Saturday, defying opinion polls that had tipped the center-left opposition party to oust it from power and promising an end to the revolving door of national leaders. Prime Minister Scott Morrison compared his Liberal Party’s victory for a third three-year term to the births of his...

Mason Bronner first dreamed up his movie while undergoing cancer treatment in the hospital. Thanks to Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic, he was able to take his vision for “The Fallen” and bring it to the big screen.

A new cancer treatment center at Inova Fairfax Hospital will encompass everything from surgery to spa services. News4’s Julie Carey reports.

Red Cross volunteers distributed the first shipment of badly needed emergency supplies in Venezuela on Tuesday after months of feuding between the government, which has denied the existence of a humanitarian crisis, and opponents who have been seeking to use the delivery of aid to force President Nicolás Maduro from power. In the working class neighborhood of Catia near downtown...

As one of their colleagues returned to work after a battle with cancer, first responders in Herndon, Virginia, surprised Carlos Marquez on Sunday. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Amy Buckalter didn’t give it a second thought when she decided to use Facebook to advertise for her start-up, Pulse, in late 2017. Buckalter knew her male friends saw all sorts of raunchy ads addressing erectile dysfunction on Facebook constantly, so she figured her lubricant for women going through menopause would be just fine. She was wrong. For the past...

A thief in Las Vegas made off with a delivery package containing what a mother told police was $40,000 worth of cancer treatment drugs for her 14-year-old son, authorities said Tuesday. Police issued a plea for help finding the thief and released a photo of the man seen in doorbell security video. He took two packages from the front of...

Olympic gold medalist and UC Berkeley graduate Nathan Adrian announced Thursday that he’s going through cancer treatment. The competitive swimmer announced on social media that he recently learned about his testicular cancer after a visit to the doctor to get his flu shot.

The mother of a U.S. Navy veteran who has been held in Iran since July said Friday that she is worried her son who was undergoing cancer treatment will not survive the detainment.