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Terminal Cancer Teen Breaks Legs, Bites Off Tongue in "Dream Ride"
Andy Cush · 07/29/14 11:27AMMore Good News: Sunscreen Isn't Enough to Prevent Skin Cancer
Kelly Conaboy · 06/15/14 01:05PMSickly Girls Need Love Too: The Fault in Our Stars
Rich Juzwiak · 06/06/14 10:05AMIt doesn't matter what old people like me think of Josh Boone's The Fault in Our Stars. It's going to be modern classic whether we're with it or against it. It's a triumph of the human spirit and unregulated cell growth. It's for teens to believe in, and it's been a while since teens have had something to believe in. So what difference will it make if I say that The Fault in Our Stars is bland and corny?
5-Year-Old Gets a Superhero Funeral After Battle with Brain Cancer
Jay Hathaway · 05/20/14 04:24PMFive-year-old Brayden Denton loved comic book heroes from the time he was 3, and watched the Spider-Man movies "over and over." After he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer a year ago, he always had a superhero with him at treatments. And at his funeral this week, superheroes served as his pallbearers.
Adam Weinstein · 03/31/14 11:45AM
School Bans 9-year-old Who Shaved Her Head for a Friend With Cancer
Jay Hathaway · 03/25/14 09:15AMJimmy Kimmel's Tears for a 7-year-old With Cancer Are Not a Hoax
Jay Hathaway · 02/27/14 12:41PMLate night host and reason-we-can't-have-nice-things Jimmy Kimmel has made a schtick out of destroying your ability to trust a viral video ever again, but the tears he cried for a 7-year-old boy with cancer were no hoax.
Tom Brokaw Diagnosed With Cancer
Gabrielle Bluestone · 02/11/14 09:10PMThe World Has a Lot More Cancer to Look Forward To
Hamilton Nolan · 02/03/14 03:12PMDying Man Writes 800 Inspirational Notes for Young Daughter's Lunch
Taylor Berman · 01/27/14 02:35PMSince his daughter, Emma, was in second grade, Garth Callaghan has written inspirational notes on the napkins he packs with her lunch each day. He's promised her she'll get one every day until she graduates high school. Callaghan will keep that promise, even though doctors—who have diagnosed him with cancer three times in two years—give him just an eight percent chance of living another five years.
Burglar Walks Out of Prison, Found Buried In Backyard 28 Years Later
Ken Layne · 01/24/14 03:20PMDennis "Slick" Lilly put on a prison guard's uniform and walked out of jail in December 1986, and that's the last the cops ever saw him alive. Despite being on the FBI's list of Most Wanted Criminals, Lilly was so slick that he disappeared into the life of a law-abiding small businessman in a woodsy town near Seattle.
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Robert Kessler · 01/23/14 03:18PMDear Bill Keller: I Have Cancer. Is That OK?
Robert Kessler · 01/14/14 02:58PMEmma Keller Wonders: Does This Cancer Patient Tweet Too Much?
Hamilton Nolan · 01/09/14 04:37AMJohn Cook · 11/27/13 10:06AM
Certifying Board Says Gynecologists Are Only Allowed to Treat Women
Gabrielle Bluestone · 11/24/13 11:22AMPositivity is Bullshit When You Have Cancer
Lauren Sczudlo · 11/23/13 12:54PMCancer Patient Banned from Daughter's School Due to Her "Smell"
Lacey Donohue · 11/14/13 10:39PMAn Albuquerque mother says her daughter's elementary school principal banned her from school grounds for the way she smells. Kerri Mascareno was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer in August, and while she's undergoing chemotherapy to shrink her tumor, she's also struggling with the administration at Tierra Antigua Elementary.