A 13-year-old cancer patient who was put into foster care after her parents refused to allow radiation treatment will be reunited with her family, a judge ruled.

Medical researchers agree that, at the very least, regular exercise can make people feel better and feel better about themselves. There is less agreement on whether it can also prevent cancer.

Katie Wernecke, a 13-year-old cancer patient who was put into foster care after her parents refused to allow radiation treatment, will be reunited with her family, a judge ruled Monday. A state judge said Wernecke, whose health is deteriorating, would be better off with her family.

A song with lyrics written by a single mother with cancer and music by Billy Bragg goes on sale.

TORONTO (CP) - It may seem an odd way to test someone for lung cancer, but analysing cells scraped from inside the cheeks may one day provide an easy, cheap and effective way to detect the disease at an early, treatable stage, a study suggests.

MONDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- One of the reasons lung cancer is so deadly is that it is often detected too late for treatments to be effective.

MONDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Women are more vulnerable to developing tobacco-linked colorectal cancer than men, U.S. researchers report.

MONDAY, Oct. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Young black Americans are at much higher risk for colon cancer than similarly aged whites or Hispanics, according to two new studies.

African-Americans are more susceptible to colon cancer at an earlier age than are whites, new study findings suggest, but they are also more likely to have tumors that respond well to treatment if caught early.

MONTREAL ? Oct. 31, 2005 ? One day people at high risk of lung cancer might scrape the inside of the cheek with a small wooden spatula similar to a tongue depressor and have the collected cells analyzed for lung cancer, a new study shows.