cancer

A walk to raise funds and awareness about GIST, a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer, starts at 11 a.m. Saturday at Yakima's Sarg Hubbard Park. Lindsay Freeburg, one of only two people diagnosed with the disease in Yakima, stopped by the "The Big Show" and spoke with Todd E. Lyons Esq. on Tuesday morning.

This kid couldn't have drawn up a better ending to his tale.

You either know someone with cancer or know someone who knows someone had or had cancer. Doctors have been searching for a cure for a long time now and they may have just found it in the most unlikely of places.

Okay, we're not saying there's an upside to cancer, but this is pretty cool.

Valerie Harper, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' and its titular spin-off 'Rhoda,' has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. But she's determined to live her last months to the fullest.

Taylor Swift sadly cannot make Kevin McGuire’s prom in New Jersey. However, the singer has instead asked the cancer-stricken teen, whose sister started a Facebook campaign to get Swift to accompany him to prom, to be her date to the upcoming 2012 ACM Awards. What a class act Taylor Swift is. No wonder she inspires such fiercely loyal dedication among her fans.

This scenario, about not giving up or giving up in light of horrible circumstances, sounds like something out of one of Taylor Swift‘s songs. The singer got asked to prom by Kevin McGuire, a teen who is fighting cancer for the second time in his life.

Justin Bieber knows he’d be nothing without his fans. So when the pop sensation heard that Avalanna Routh, a six-year old fighting a rare form of childhood brain cancer, dreamed of meeting him, he flew the little girl and her family to New York for a heartwarming meeting.

If anyone is going to get a lumps of coal in his or her stocking this year, it’s Martha Nicholas. The Virginian woman was arrested Wednesday for bilking kind-hearted people out of money by falsely claiming she had cancer. Nicholas, 42, duped even her husband and children along the way, claimed she was a four-time cancer patient and participated in multiple cancer fundraisers

A selfless mother has died to save her unborn baby. The woman was diagnosed with a life-threatening form of cancer and refused chemotherapy so that her child could be born, even though it meant she would die.