Telling cancer stories through comics and graphic novels can be therapeutic for writers, illustrators and their audiences. MARISA ACOCELLA MARCHETTO felt there was no better way to describe her cancer ...

Kentucky-born Tawny Willoughby used a tanning bed four to five times a week in high school. At age 27, she’s now had basal cell carcinoma five times, and squamous cell carcinoma once. Now a wife and ...

FLORENCE, Ala. (MEDIA GENERAL) – Tawny Willoughby says she spent 4-5 times per week in a tanning bed in high school. Now, at 27, she’s had skin cancer six times. She put graphic photos of her face on ...

Living a healthy lifestyle can help to prevent cancer. (No cancer is completely preventable, though; genetics and bad luck are factors, too.) But which lifestyle factors really matter? The World ...

NPR commentator Leroy Sievers is coping with his cancer in a different way -- with a blog about his experiences. People whose lives have been disrupted by cancer are using graphic novels to tell their ...

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Photos posted by a skin cancer patient showing the damage done by frequent tanning bed use have gone viral. Tawny Willoughby, 27, of Alabama, has had basal cell carcinoma five times and squamous cell ...

Supermodel Christie Brinkley bared all Wednesday — in her face, that is — announcing her skin cancer diagnosis in a graphic Instagram post that doubled as a PSA. “The good news for me is we caught the ...

The first attempt worldwide to have graphic cancer warnings on bottles of alcoholic drinks has been effectively stamped out by pressure from "Big Alcohol." Pressure from the alcohol industry has ...

A young widow who lost her husband to cancer nearly drowned in grief and medical debt. Now Fumiko Chino is a cancer doctor who sees her own tragedy play out in other patients. Too often people are ...