Peter Tork, a former member of the 1960s pop group the Monkees, says he has a rare form of head and neck cancer, but the prognosis is good. ...more

March 5, 2009

Longtime city commissioner and former mayor Mike Sparkman was scheduled this week for nonsurgical treatment for prostate cancer. ...more

February 18, 2009

Longtime city commissioner and former mayor Mike Sparkman is scheduled next week for nonsurgical treatment for prostate cancer. The 64-year-old Sparkman said he will undergo prostate seeding brachytherapy on Monday. ...more

February 12, 2009

Roughly 20 percent of women with breast cancer who should be receiving radiation therapy as a follow-up to surgery aren't getting it. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center who conducted a study that uncovered this potentially deadly situation say the most common reason women cited for not considering radiation therapy was that their doctors did not recommend it. ...more

February 11, 2009

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — Sen. Edward Kennedy, who is being treated for brain cancer, has been taken to a hospital near his Cape Cod vacation home after complaining of feeling ill. ...more

September 26, 2008

Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years. ...more

September 23, 2008

The owner of a Palmetto assisted-living facility has given up her license after an 85-year-old man was found living there with an untreated cancerous tumor that covered nearly half his face. ...more

January 22, 2008

Carla and Robert Burgess faced a hard decision: They could either pay for Robert's chemotherapy and radiation treatments, or pay the rent. ...more

December 24, 2007

SEBRING — For two years, Nancy Martin checked in women who came to Seascape Imaging for mammograms, but she never got one herself. ...more

October 11, 2007