NUH's new initiative reduces unnecessary medications and checks for terminal cancer patients, improving comfort and quality ...

State Sen. John Kane introduced “Ryan’s Law” — which would allow dying patients to manage pain with medical marijuana in ...

Even patients with stage 3 or 4 cancer can extend their average survival by 330 days if they quit smoking, compared to those ...

Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...

The “striking” findings showed an overall upward trend in life expectancy when patients took niraparib - a targeted therapy ...

A new rule for doctors in England has been introduced after Jessica Brady, 27, who was told she was 'too young' for cancer, ...

Stage-four cancer patients are living longer, challenging the idea of what it means to have and survive cancer. “The science just needs to stay a step ahead of me.” ...

When terminal cancer patients choose to die at home, as opposed to staying in the hospital, they tend to live longer, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer. The study was conducted ...

Bipartisan Pennsylvania senators have introduced a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to use of medical marijuana ...

April 15, 2010 — Despite the distress of learning that their disease is terminal, most cancer patients prefer to know the truth, and to hear it from their physicians. This conclusion is from a Korean ...

Many terminally ill patients think clinical trials give them a fighting chance. May 21, 2008— -- Three weeks ago, 38-year-old Allan Shallenberger from Los Angeles received the same grim diagnosis ...