Like far too many Americans, U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite has seen the devastating results of pancreatic cancer. Her husband, Harvey, 68, died of the disease last summer. ...more

February 23, 2009

Tampa Bay area men with a certain prostate condition are being recruited for a National Cancer Institute study. ...more

December 20, 2008

The rate of new cancer cases finally may be inching down - cautiously optimistic news but a gain that specialists worry could be derailed by economic turmoil. Death rates from cancer have been dropping slowly for years, thanks to earlier detection and better treatments. ...more

November 25, 2008

Ten years ago, most of Brian Nussenbaum's oral cancer patients were men older than 60 who used tobacco and drank heavily. ...more

November 15, 2008

Most patients go in for their mammogram with some anxiety and certainly "nobody wants to have it done," said Tanya Hinskey, a mammography technologist at Highlands Breast and Imaging Center. ...more

October 12, 2008

Devin Deschaine is a fighter. He doesn't have a choice. The Hudson boy, whose brown hair used to hang down to his dark eyebrows, turned 2 on March 3. A few days later, his mother, Melissa Deschaine, 20, of Hudson, noticed him limping. ...more

September 25, 2008

A long-awaited federal study of an X-ray alternative to the dreaded colonoscopy confirms its effectiveness at spotting most cancers, although it was far from perfect. ...more

September 18, 2008

Bob Gibbs is moving his battle against brain cancer to two wheels. ...more

September 13, 2008

Nearly two-thirds of hospitals fail to check colon cancer patients well enough for signs their tumor is spreading, says a study that advises patients to ask about this mark of quality care before surgery. ...more

September 10, 2008

The blood test millions of men undergo each year to screen for prostate cancer leads to so much unnecessary anxiety, surgery and complications that doctors should stop testing elderly men, a panel of experts said. ...more

August 5, 2008