Patients, Doctors Hope FDA Doesn't Ban Cancer Drug
Desperate patients and their doctors have been battling a recommendation to revoke approval of the breast cancer drug Avastin, a move the FDA could make before the end of the year.
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Desperate patients and their doctors have been battling a recommendation to revoke approval of the breast cancer drug Avastin, a move the FDA could make before the end of the year.
She's been fighting breast cancer. Now she is fighting to get her job back – taking on the controversial TSA. The Tinley Park mother of three says she was unfairly fired from her TSA job because of her illness. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
Science author Rebecca Skloot has opened a medical Pandora's box with her book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks."
A Dolton woman says she asked her boss for two weeks off to undergo cancer treatment. She says her boss turned her down, then fired her. Now, she and the Federal EEOC are suing the company. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
After a tonsillectomy, Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) has been diagnosed with cancer, forcing him to abandon his plan to run for mayor.
Research finds hospitals in black communities don't do as good a job in early detection or treatment.
The state's first proton therapy center for cancer patients is now open for business.
Chicago First Lady Maggie Daley is back home Tuesday, after being hospitalized for pain in her leg in Washington, D.C.
Her cancer doctor says hospitalization for leg pain is no serious setback.
Mrs. Daley was hospitalized Friday for what her physician describes as "significant discomfort" in her right leg.
Chicago's first lady Maggie Daley spent the night at a hospital in Washington, D.C., after suffering pain related to the cancer she has been battling for some time.
Maggie Daley, who was in Washington to receive a leadership award from the Kuwait-America Foundation, experienced leg pain.
For breast cancer awareness month, some in the liquor industry have created pink products and packaging with proceeds benefitting breast cancer causes.
