"Stand Up To Cancer" Returns September 5
Dozens of broadcast and cable networks will again donate a simultaneous hour of commercial-free airtime to carry the fundraiser "Stand Up to Cancer."
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Dozens of broadcast and cable networks will again donate a simultaneous hour of commercial-free airtime to carry the fundraiser "Stand Up to Cancer."
Workers were busy Wednesday moving and installing a huge, high-tech piece of cancer fighting equipment at the new Center for Proton Therapy.
A 220-ton innovative cancer-fighting machine has finally made it to North Texas after its trip halfway across the globe.
A unique North Texas summer camp is giving hope and helping kids fight cancer at the same time. Camp iHope was started at Medical City Children's Hospital in Dallas. The idea is to help sick kids temporarily forget their difficult reality.
Police in Hurst are asking for help with finding the man who took advantage of a woman who was trying to raise money to pay for her breast cancer treatments.
3-D mammograms may be better at finding cancer than regular scans, a large study suggests. The study involved almost half a million breast scans, with more than one-third of them using relatively new 3-D imaging along with conventional scans.
What do ice cream and pajamas have in common? Usually, nothing. But this Saturday in Plano, the two come together to raise money for a great cause.
At the College World Series in Nebraska, a lot of people were surprised when Texas Tech didn't start their lefty freshman -- all-American Dylan Dusek. The teen has been impressive, but the journey to the mound is the inspiring part of his story.
Gwynn's sweet left-handed swing made him one of San Diego's best-loved athletes. He was nicknamed "Mr. Padre" during his 20-year major league career.
Saturday is the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Plano, and participant Paola Gerber talks about what it means to be a breast cancer 'pre-vivor.'
A North Texas man is seeking more than $1 million in damages after he says surgeons mistakenly removed his healthy kidney instead of his cancerous one.
Texas doctors are working to develop a new and easy way to diagnose a rare but serious form of eye cancer. Retinoblastoma is characterized by tumors that form inside the eye. In the U.S., it appears in some 350 babies and toddlers each year.
Pete Cason has defied death, and the cancer growing inside him, for three years, his wife Kathy a nearly constant companion.
May is Melanoma Month and some local celebrities are joining with DermOne to fight the most common form of cancer in the U.S, skin cancer.
Kyle Murray, 10, is battling for his life. He was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer when he was three years old.
Democrat Wendy Davis is renewing attacks in the Texas governor's race on Republican rival Greg Abbott over past turmoil at the state's $3 billion cancer-fighting agency.
It was all smiles as dozens of north Texans gave up their hair for a charitable cause at AT&T Stadium.
It is, at best, an awful coincidence. Three kids with cancer -- all at the same Keller school.
Beating cancer, by telling people, to "buzz-off." It's a growing New England event that's now expanding to North Texas, thanks to an Allen family who suffered a great loss more than 20 years ago.
More than 3.5 million cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year. But it is something that can be overcome if any changes to the skin are detected and treated early.
Eating a diet heavy on meat and cheese may be as harmful to you as smoking a cigarette, researchers claim.
More than 300 people participated in "Wheel to Survive," a six-hour indoor cycling event, in Dallas Sunday to raise money for the fight against Ovarian Cancer.
Over the past decade, the phrases 'BRCA 1' and 'BRCA 2' went mainstream as genetic testing to assess breast cancer risk became common. But, now, doctors are telling patients whose tests were negative to get retested.
A Canadian study that many experts say has major flaws has revived debate about the value of mammograms.
Texas veterans with cancer were among those left with a higher risk of dying because of delays in routine screenings from the Veterans Health Administration.
