It's a lot of money, $100,000. Gulfcoast Oncology Foundation, a Bay area charity for cancer patients, has been promised that sum - if it can raise enough money to match the donation. Director Jane Morse-Swett says the foundation is about halfway there. ...more

June 21, 2008

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy emerged from the most precarious period after surgery to treat a brain tumor without any complications, spending Tuesday walking hospital hallways, spending time with his family and "keeping up with the news of the day," his office said. ...more

June 4, 2008

"You have cancer." Those three words will test the spirit of even the strongest person. To hear them twice takes a special resilience. ...more

May 2, 2008

When 13-year-old Brandon Wilson was diagnosed with brain cancer late last year, his mother's friends decided to turn a negative into a positive and celebrate his life. ...more

May 2, 2008

Jonathan Rivera may never make it to elementary school. He is dying from a cancer that has left him drained and hairless from three grueling chemotherapy treatments over his short five years. ...more

February 23, 2008

Whenever a NASCAR celebrity ignited a media blaze, it was Chris Throgmartin's job to put out the flames ...more

February 16, 2008

She could not afford to "feed the beast" any longer. Beth Garman was a real estate broker who once had a staff of 18 agents. ...more

February 6, 2008

People who have never experienced seasickness always seem to know just how to cure it. ...more

January 31, 2008

PAMELA EVANS, 45, Riverview ...more

January 31, 2008

On Dec. 13, a trio of bipartisan U.S. congressmen penned a letter calling for an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration's handling recently of a drug that was being considered for terminal prostate cancer patients. ...more

December 26, 2007