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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 Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital, Gaza's only medical facility serving cancer patients, is forced to suspend operations after running out of fuel. Sixteen of the Gaza Strip's 35 hospitals and more than 50 of its 72 primary healthcare clinics are now unusable.
2023-11-2

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh claim they have successfully brought prepubescent-sourced, immature human egg cells to maturity in a laboratory for the first time. The work may be significant because it may allow the harvesting and preservation of eggs from young girls undergoing toxic cancer treatment before their lifetime reservoirs of those cells are destroyed.
2018-02-9

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the cancer agency of the World Health Organization (WHO), has evaluated the carcinogenicity of the consumption of red meat and processed meat. After thoroughly reviewing the accumulated scientific literature, a Working Group of 22 experts from 10 countries convened by the IARC Monographs Programme classified the consumption of red meat as probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A), based on limited evidence that the consumption of red meat causes cancer in humans and strong mechanistic evidence supporting a carcinogenic effect. This association was observed mainly for colorectal cancer, but associations were also seen for pancreatic cancer and prostate cancer. Processed meat was classified as carcinogenic to humans (Group 1), based on sufficient evidence in humans that the consumption of processed meat causes colorectal cancer.
2015-10-28

The World Health Organization (WHO) concludes that diesel exhaust causes cancer.
2012-06-12

Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai dies while undergoing cancer treatment at the age of 71.
2011-09-26

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez arrives back in Cuba for chemotherapy treatment.
2011-07-16

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

French-American mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot dies of cancer in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2010-10-14

U.S. actor Michael Douglas begins chemotherapy after doctors discover a tumor in his throat.
2010-08-16