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5 strategies to quit smoking for good

Which is worse: using tobacco, or quitting it?

22 strange ways the sun may affect your body

You know that the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays can cause skin cancer and premature aging, and that wearing sunscreen (year-round!) is an important way to protect yourself.

Hollywood Nation: Cancer patient gets 'Star Wars' wish

Early screening for terminally-ill man

Dying ‘Star Wars’ fan gets wish

Gets to see 'Force Awakens' early

Superbugs mean more infections and deaths after surgery, chemotherapy

The declining effectiveness of antibiotics may make tens of thousands more U.S. patients vulnerable to potentially fatal infections after surgery or chemotherapy, researchers estimate.

Thrillseekers strip naked for roller coaster record

They failed to set the record but raised a lot of money. 

The skin cancer you're not looking for

More people survive melanoma now than in generations past, but the death rate of one type of melanoma has not budged for the past 30 years, a 2012 study found.

6 sneaky cancer culprits

Health threats can come in many disguises. We pull the masks off six that are hiding in plain sight.

Olive oil may prevent cancer, study finds

Olive oil, a staple of the Mediterranean diet and long hailed as a cardiovascular health enhancer, is now showing promise as a cancer preventive.

Robots help hospital-bound cancer patients keep up with schoolwork, friends

Peyton Walton, of Poolesville, Md., has to stay at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York for five weeks to undergo treatment for cancer.