Though some smokers get lung cancer, for example, not all lung cancer sufferers have smoked.

So, we're sitting around and thinking, Why would men who have the mutation a defect in an antiviral defense system get prostate cancer?

I'm a cancer patient.

Tom is fighting cancer.

Vakhtang Kikabidze on the fight against cancer

His illness may be cancer.

Tom lost his fight with cancer.

Tom is afraid of getting lung cancer.

Tom is battling lung cancer.

Without prevention, they have no options if they get sick.

Elizabeth Murchison Fighting a contagious cancer

China is a cancer country.

Smoking has a great deal to do with cancer.

People who were exposed to asbestos in those buildings are now coming down with the disease.

When I smell that smell, I think about the people who get sick, Esqueda says.

Annually, 8 million people become ill with tuberculosis, and 2 million people die from the disease worldwide.

There is a connection between smoking and lung cancer.

He was terminally ill with cancer.

Many cancer patients lose their hair because of chemotherapy.

Was anybody among your relatives ill with cancer?

Between 2001 and 2002, the foundation raised more than 350,000 for breast and prostate cancer research.

The evidence for cancer is less certain.

David Agus A new strategy in the war on cancer

Is there a link between smoking and lung cancer?

Doctors have made great strides in their fight against cancer.

Do you recommend pursuing these treatments now, for most cancer patients?

Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance

A vaccine against hepatitis B virus is proving to be effective in reducing the incidence of liver cancer.

Two years later, she comes back with stage three C ovarian cancer.

He died in Nuenen on 6 August 2002 after a long struggle with cancer.

Despite having remarkably similar genes at birth, identical twins do not develop the same cancers.

Ethiopia s government had strenuously denied rumors of serious ill health caused by liver cancer.

After undergoing surgery to remove his cancerous testicle, Armstrong became a student of cancer.

Could be. And it might have nothing to do with cancer.

Health care has lapsed, with many cancer patients losing access to life saving treatment.

Such conversations are something that all cancer patients must face.

Patients at the Victor Gadbois palliative care home all suffer from cancer.

Some 300 million people become ill with malaria each year, causing 1.5 million deaths, most of them small children.

A recent study showed that a positive attitude did not lengthen the lives of lung cancer patients.

Here's a woman with a breast cancer being treated with the antiangiogenic drug called Avastin, which is FDA approved.

The mice with this cancer that get the drug live, and the ones that don't rapidly perish.

Michael Karoli died of cancer on November 17, 2001.

This requires, first and foremost, dispelling the myth that one cannot catch cancer.

But starting in 2004, when antiangiogenic therapies first became available, well you can see that there has been a 70 to 100 percent improvement in survival for people with kidney cancer, multiple myeloma, colorectal cancer, and gastrointestinal stromal tumors.

Indeed, cases of cancer that are not tied to smoking or aging are increasing.