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Catherine, Princess of Wales announces that she was diagnosed with cancer following recent abdominal surgery and is currently undergoing chemotherapy.
2024-03-22

The man who claimed that he is the fugitive Satoshi Kirishima, a former member of the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front who was wanted for his role in a series of bombings in the 1970s and who was arrested by Japanese police on January 25, dies of cancer in a hospital in Tokyo, Japan. However, it has not been confirmed if the man was actually Kirishima.
2024-01-29

Bayer AG announces it has agreed to pay US$10 billion to resolve thousands of lawsuits regarding claims that the Monsanto herbicide Roundup causes cancer. Court-appointed mediator Kenneth Feinberg says the deal is a "constructive and reasonable" resolution.
2020-06-24

Myanmar reports the country's first death from COVID-19 as confirmed cases rise to 14. The patient was a 69-year-old man with cancer in Yangon.
2020-03-31

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, aged 90, announces that recent liver surgery revealed that he is suffering from an as-yet unspecified form of cancer which has spread to other parts of his body.
2015-08-12

Preventive medicine researchers from Harvard University and Northwestern University conduct a study on long-term (13 years; 793 people) pre-cancer changes (mostly leukemia, prostate cancer, lung cancers, and skin cancers) in telomeres, the protective ends of DNA. Some said, in previous short-look studies, that focused mostly on their known role in the pace of regular aging, that they either got shorter or longer. There was a 3-4 year period of accelerated aging, and then it halted a few years before cancer was diagnosed.
2015-05-3

Research from the "Science Translational Medicine" suggest that Vitamin C may be useful in aiding chemotherapy against cancer.
2014-02-9

After a two-year research project conducted by scientists at the National Chemistry Institute of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam becomes the world's tenth country to successfully apply nanotechnology to produce nano curcumin, a substance that can help treat cancer.
2013-10-31

President Hugo Chávez returns to Venezuela after undergoing surgery for cancer in Cuba.
2011-07-4

American International Group CEO Robert Benmosche has cancer, the company said, and he is receiving "aggressive chemotherapy," but his prognosis is not clear. [https:--www.cnbc.com-id-39837371 (CNBC)]date=August 2019
2010-10-25