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    Global Causes Of Death: Significant Shifts From 2000 To 2019

    Dec 11, 2020
    The No. 1 and 2 causes of death remain the same, but there have been a number of notable changes. And now there's a new disease to assess on the global landscape: COVID-19.
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    Dear World, You're Not Going To Have The Year You Thought You'd Have

    Aug 09, 2020
    A writer shares how his wife's journey with cancer prepared them both to adapt during this unpredictable and chaotic time.
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    Research News
    Scientists in Canada have diagnosed malignant cancer for the first time in a dinosaur, a <em>Centrosaurus apertus</em> from 76 to 77 million years ago.
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    New Research Shows Dinosaurs Suffered From Malignant Cancer, Too

    Aug 04, 2020
    Scientists have identified an aggressive bone cancer — for the first time — in the fibula of a dinosaur that lived 76 to 77 million years ago. The diagnosis sheds new light on dinosaurs and disease.
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    The health threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic is particularly intense for people with cancer. Medication weakens the immune system. Cancer treatments are often delayed.
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    Pandemic Deepens Cancer's Stress And Tough Choices

    Aug 03, 2020
    For many cancer patients, daily life can feel full of risky choices involving work, family, friends and money. Nearly every option pits the risks of catching the coronavirus against other downsides.
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    Books
    Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan arrives for a coronavirus briefing in front of the Maryland State House on April 17. Hogan's book <em>Still Standing </em>is out Tuesday.
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    Larry Hogan On The Parallels Of Fighting Cancer And Maryland's Coronavirus Outbreak

    Jul 25, 2020
    NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan about his new book Still Standing: Surviving Cancer, Riots, a Global Pandemic, and the Toxic Politics That Divide America.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Dr. Lauren Jenkins reads to her twin sons, Pierce and Ashton, while wearing her "hazmat" suit. Because lung cancer has compromised her husband's immune system, Jenkins moved out of her home and visited in the suit as a precaution.
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    She's A Frontline Doctor. Her Husband Has Lung Cancer. Now, A Simple Hug Is Dangerous

    Jun 07, 2020
    When Lauren Jenkins learned a coworker had tested positive for the coronavirus, she did what once would've seemed unthinkable — separating from her two young boys and a husband with stage IV cancer.
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    The COVID-19 pandemic has caused routine and life-saving procedures for patients with cancer to be sidelined and delayed. Postponed chemotherapy is sometimes part of the hold-up, with clinics able to handle fewer patients safely each day.
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    For Cancer Patients, Anguish Grows Over Deferred Surgery As Risk Rises

    May 19, 2020
    With states starting to reopen, bans on "nonessential" surgeries are beginning to lift, too. But there's a huge backlog of cases that have only gotten more urgent and heartbreaking for many patients.
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    A phlebotomist draws blood from a patient participating in a clinical trial for a cancer treatment. With hospitals focused on COVID-19, hundreds of studies are being put on hold.
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    Coronavirus Pandemic Brings Hundreds Of U.S. Clinical Trials To A Halt

    Apr 11, 2020
    COVID-19 has led to the suspension of many clinical studies of experimental treatments. About a quarter of the stopped trials involved new cancer treatments, an NPR analysis finds.
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    When Cancer And Coronavirus Collide: Fear And Resilience

    Mar 22, 2020
    Cancer makes you face your mortality. Add in coronavirus and there's even more stress. What do people with cancer need to get by? And what can they teach us about coping?
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    A medical worker in a protective suit tends to a patient in a hospital in Wuhan, China.
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    What Happens If You're Critically Ill In China — But Not With Coronavirus

    Feb 25, 2020
    Residents say their relatives have been unable to get care for cancer, for childhood diseases and more as Wuhan and other cities put a priority on treating COVID-19 patients.
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    Young Student Gives Ailing Teacher The Ultimate Holiday Gift

    Jan 21, 2020

    When 6-year-old Olamide Ajayi heard that his former home-school teacher Miss Lisa Bernauer was sick with cancer and stru

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    Progress On Lung Cancer Drives Historic Drop In U.S. Cancer Death Rate

    Jan 08, 2020
    The U.S. cancer death rate dropped more than 2% between 2016 and 2017, the biggest single-year drop ever, according to the American Cancer Society. Better treatment for lung cancer is a factor.
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    Geriatric oncologist Supriya Gupta Mohile meets with patient Jim Mulcahy at Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. "If I didn't do a geriatric assessment and just looked at a patient I wouldn't have the same information," she says.
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    A Cancer Care Approach Tailored To The Elderly May Have Better Results

    Nov 23, 2019
    For older, often frail cancer patients, geriatric assessments can help doctors gauge the patients' physical, mental and functional capacity, and choose an appropriate treatment approach.
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    The preliminary results described Wednesday come from two patients with multiple myeloma and one with sarcoma. This was just a first safety test, the scientists say, and was not designed to measure whether such a treatment would work.
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    CRISPR Approach To Fighting Cancer Called 'Promising' In 1st Safety Test

    Nov 06, 2019
    Attempts to use the gene-editing tool CRISPR to develop a treatment for cancer seem safe and feasible in the earliest findings from the first three patients. "So far, so good," scientists say.
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    A blood transfusion bag hangs in an operating room in a hospital in the Republic of Congo. Most countries in sub-Saharan Africa have a huge gap between blood supply and demand, new research found.
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    Hospitals Around The World Have A Dire Shortage Of Blood

    Oct 22, 2019

    The first global analysis of blood supply and demand finds that many developing countries are relying on risky emergency donations.

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    A woman rolls tobacco inside a tendu leaf to make a bidi cigarette at her home in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh, India, on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. India's smokers favor cheaper options such as chewing and leaf-wrapped tobacco over cigarettes.
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    India Banned E-Cigarettes — But Beedis And Chewing Tobacco Remain Widespread

    Oct 09, 2019
    India is the world's top consumer of smokeless tobacco — and has the world's highest number of oral cavity cancers.
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    New Research: China Is Winning Some Health-Care Battles — And Losing Others

    Oct 05, 2019
    A suite of new research shows the country beating infectious diseases over the last two decades. But deaths from lifestyle-related diseases like cancer and diabetes are on the rise.
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    A colored computerized tomography (CT) scan of an axial section of the brain of a 59-year-old patient with a malignant (cancerous) glioblastoma brain tumor.
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    Deadly Brain Cancers Act Like 'Vampires' By Hijacking Normal Cells To Grow

    Sep 18, 2019
    Researchers say certain brain cancers tap electrical signals from healthy cells to fuel their growth. The finding could lead to treatments for deadly tumors like the one that killed Sen. John McCain.
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    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks with NPR in July.
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    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated Again For Cancer

    Aug 23, 2019
    The 86-year-old justice just wrapped up weeks of treatment after a new cancerous tumor was found on her pancreas. Doctors say there's no evidence of cancer elsewhere.
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    Robyn Adcock (left), a University of California, San Francisco pain relief specialist, gently guides Jessica Greenfield to acupressure points on her son's foot and leg that have helped relieve his chronic pain.
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    Pain Rescue Team Helps Seriously Ill Kids Cope In Terrible Times

    Aug 05, 2019
    An interdisciplinary team in San Francisco uses acupressure, massage, counseling and other methods, as well as medicine, to help kids get relief from chronic pain. But such pediatric centers are rare.
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    Computer illustration of malignant B-cell lymphocytes seen in Burkitt's lymphoma, the most common childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.
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    How To Bring Cancer Care To The World's Poorest Children

    Jul 26, 2019
    For children in developing countries, cancer care is largely out of reach. But new research is challenging assumptions that it's too costly and complicated.
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    Politics
    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sits for a portrait in the Lawyer's Lounge at the Supreme Court of the United States.
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    Justice Ginsburg: 'I Am Very Much Alive'

    Jul 24, 2019
    The Supreme Court justice sat down for an interview with NPR's Nina Totenberg and said that despite battling cancer for a third time earlier this year, she's not going anywhere anytime soon.
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    A stretch of the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, La., that is crowded with chemical plants has been called "Cancer Alley" because of the health problems there.
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    A Call For More Research On Cancer's Environmental Triggers

    Jul 12, 2019
    Scientists are making progress in identifying environmental hazards that contribute to cancer. Researchers say many cases could be avoided if the work is accelerated.
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    When the cancer clinic at Mercy Hospital Fort Scott closed in January, Karen Endicott-Coyan and other cancer patients had to continue their treatments out of town.
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    Have Cancer, Must Travel: Patients Left In Lurch After Town's Hospital Closes

    Jun 29, 2019
    As the rural town of Fort Scott, Kan., grapples with the closure of its hospital, cancer patients bear a heavy burden. They now have to go elsewhere for treatments they used to get locally.
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    Don't Let the Sun Push You Around

    Jun 26, 2019

    Fight back with free sunscreen, courtesy of Comprehensive Cancer Centers

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