Harold Benjamin helped cancer patients with wellness centers
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Harold Benjamin, who established the Wellness Community network of support centers for cancer patients after his wife was treated for breast cancer, has died.
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LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The Wellness Community(R) (TWC), an international, non-profit organization dedicated to providing free support, education and hope for all people affected by cancer, announced
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Olympic gold medalist Dorothy Hamill is undergoing treatment for breast cancer. Hamill said in a statement Friday that she is being treated at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. The prognosis is favorable, but the 51-year-old Hamill said she will miss some of the "Broadway on Ice" tour while she is having treatment.
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SUNDAY, June 3 (HealthDay News) -- Not every cancer patient is reaping the benefits of advances in medical care, new research shows.
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Man's best friend could also be a  lifesaver in the fight against cancer.
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DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate John Kerry is in robust health, despite a cancer operation last year and a hectic campaign schedule, The New York Times reported today after interviewing the senator&#39;s doctors.
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After being diagnosed with prostate cancer, men are capable of adhering to a low-fat diet for at least a year if they receive good counseling and support, a new study shows.
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Friends suggest that her increasing presence in her husbandâs campaign reflects a clarity that comes from her cancer diagnoses.
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Long before she took on America's embattled health-care system, Nancy Davenport-Ennis was riding high. She was a national speaker for the homebuilding and real estate industry, teaching classes at the University of North Carolina and writing a textbook about selling new homes. Her husband, Jack, ran a successful funeral parlor and they had two daughters in good private schools. Then, Davenport-Ennis got breast cancer.
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There was a time when Michael Saag thought he would be content to be a cardiologist, helping heart attack victims and people with heart conditions.
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By Carol Gentry, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Feb. 13--TAMPA -- Every few days, a Federal Express truck pulls into the loading dock at Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute with another delivery of tumor tissues, snap-frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored in Ziploc bags.
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Higher-income individuals with prostate cancer feel more informed about the disease and more satisfied with their treatment decisions than do their lower-income peers, new survey findings show.
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WASHINGTON Senator John Kerry says his doctors have told him he&#39;s cured after a bout with prostate cancer almost two years ago.
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TUESDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDayNews) -- A daily walk around the block, a few laps in the pool, a vigorous game of soccer: studies suggest exercise is extending the lives of women who've survived breast cancer, even as it lifts their spirits.
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The Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center is decidedly less exotic than its name might suggest. Wedged between a lawyer's office and a brokerage firm on the third floor of a dreary Jupiter, Fla., office building, it is a glorified boiler room, "basically a call center," as one employee explains. Yet investigators contend that the Palm Beach Rejuvenation Center (PBRC) -- and dozens of so-called antiaging or wellness centers like it -- is a vital component in a massive illegal distribution network that enabled customers to place orders over the Internet for performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormone (HGH).
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Researchers singled out the deaths of more than 300,000 cancer patients, because deaths from cancer are usually more predictable and less sudden than those from heart attacks, strokes or other ailments.
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Tumor cells found in the blood of  breast cancer patients up to 20 years after surgery suggest  that the body may have ways of keeping a dormant cancer in  check, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.