Community Shows Outpouring Of Support For 10-Year-Old Natick Boy Battling Cancer
The town honored Connor Heffler of Natick by hanging blue-and-orange ribbons on trees that led to a wall with his name on it.
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The town honored Connor Heffler of Natick by hanging blue-and-orange ribbons on trees that led to a wall with his name on it.
People often turn to herbal remedies for a variety of health conditions, but some can actually be harmful, especially if they're undergoing cancer treatment.
Lumber Liquidators' stock plunged Monday as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says people exposed to certain types of the company's laminate flooring were three times more likely to get cancer than the agency previously predicted.
Cancer is becoming the No. 1 killer in more and more states as deaths from heart disease have declined, new health statistics show.
A conference aimed at empowering and educating people affected by cancer will be held in Quincy on Saturday.
To change the anniversary date of his cancer diagnosis into something good, he invented Gabriel's Day of Kindness.
The World Health Organization says eating processed meats is just as bad for you as smoking.
Students at the Amvet Boulevard Elementary School in North Attleboro took a break from their classrooms on Friday and gathered in the gym for a different type of lesson, as they welcomed former New England Patriots lineman Joe Andruzzi.
A Webster boy's cancer may have returned, but a visit from the police department's K9 unit helped put a smile on his face over the weekend.
A Fitchburg man says if it wasn't for his terrifying encounter in the ocean, he wouldn't be alive.
Second cancers are on the rise. Nearly 1 in 5 new cases in the U.S. now involves someone who has had the disease before.
The Boston Fire Department is fighting back against cancer, which has taken the lives of 160 firefighters in the last 25 years.
A pregnant Braintree woman battling cancer may give birth in early September.
"Pedal Partners" are riding in the Pan-Mass Challenge to support kids with cancer.
A southeastern Massachusetts woman who won a $1 million lottery prize must pay over $100,000 after admitting she stole from her brother's business while he battled cancer.
A new study finds that sitting on your duff for long periods of time can raise a woman's risk of cancer.
An Attleboro couple is planning their dream wedding while they still have time.
Police officer JD Daige spends his nights patrolling Worcester in his police cruiser and his days training for his very first Pan-Mass Challenge.
Lindsea Taylor is making sure her Imagine Dragons tickets aren't going to waste.
Material designed to make playgrounds and turf fields safer for children, may actually be putting them at risk.
When 5-year-old Danny Nickerson of Foxboro died from a rare cancer in April, he left a friend who resolved to do what he could to fight the disease.
New England Patriots star tight end Rob Gronkowski got a buzz cut for a good cause on Sunday.
Surgeons have used plastic implants and bone grafts to close large defects in patients' skulls before but now doctors at MD Anderson Cancer Center and Houston Methodist Hospital say they have performed the world's first partial skull and scalp transplant.
Some doctors now think you can do more for kids with cancer by actually doing less.
