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FRIDAY, Feb. 13, 2026 (HealthDay News) — For many, hair extensions are a staple of style and convenience, but they may come with a hidden health cost.
Researchers have uncovered a wide array of hazardous chemicals in these products — including those linked to cancer and birth defects — marking the most comprehensive look to date at this largely unregulated industry.
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- February 13, 2026
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 4, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Beating cancer is no small feat, but a diet loaded with ultra-processed foods might undercut survivors’ future health, a new study says.
Cancer survivors with diets high in ultra-processed foods have a 59% higher rate of death from cancer, researchers reported today in the journal Cancer Epi...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- February 4, 2026
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MONDAY, Jan. 26, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Esophageal cancer is a tumor that forms inside your esophagus, the passageway through which food and water travel from your mouth to your stomach.
This tube starts in the back of your throat, goes through your neck and connects with your stomach in the abdomen. The wall of the esophagus is about a quarter-inch thick and floppy, like the...
- Daniel J. Boffa, MD, MBA, Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Yale School of Medicine HealthDay Reporter
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- January 26, 2026
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FRIDAY, Jan. 23, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Colon cancer is now the No. 1 cause of cancer deaths in Americans under 50.
It claimed that spot seven years earlier than previously projected.
Colon cancer deaths among people under 50 have risen roughly 1% each year since 2005, researchers reported Jan. 22 in the
FRIDAY, Jan. 23, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Mesothelioma is a rare type of cancer, most often caused by exposure to asbestos, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Pr...
- David Hill, MD, Chair, Board of Directors, American Lung Association HealthDay Reporter
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- January 23, 2026
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 14, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Cancer survival rates in the United States are better than they’ve ever been.
For the first time, the five-year survival rate for all cancers combined reached a landmark 70%, the American Cancer Society (ACS) said in its 2026 cancer statistics report.
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 14, 2026
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MONDAY, Jan. 12, 2026 (HealthDay News) — More kids than ever are surviving cancer, but a new study shows how their childhood brush with the disease continues to haunt their health into adulthood.
Teenage and young adults who survived childhood cancer appear to age faster than people their age who never had cancer, researchers reported in the journal
THURSDAY, Jan. 8, 2026 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has again missed a deadline to propose a ban on chemicals in hair-straightening products that may pose a serious cancer risk.
Its target date for the proposed rule on formaldehyde was Dec. 31. No action has yet been taken.
An FDA spokesperson said the rule is still in the works.
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- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- January 8, 2026
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MONDAY, Jan. 5, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Smoke-soaked firefighter gear can be rife with cancer-linked “forever chemicals,” but an easy test can help protect the health of these first responders.
A simple wipe test detected invisible PFAS chemicals on every set of firefighter gear examined in the study, including breathing masks, researchers reported Jan. 1 in the
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- January 5, 2026
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FRIDAY, Jan. 2, 2026 (HealthDay News) — Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and the granddaughter of former President John F. Kennedy, has died after a battle with cancer.
She was 35.
"Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," her family s...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- January 2, 2026
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MONDAY, Dec. 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Barry Manilow, the singer behind hits like "Copacabana," "Can’t Smile Without You" and "Mandy," announced that he has lung cancer and is postponing upcoming concerts to undergo surgery.
Manilow, 82, shared the...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- December 29, 2025
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TUESDAY, Dec. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors always restrict the diet of patients undergoing treatment for blood cancers, to protect them from foodborne illnesses while their immune system is knocked down.
That remains a wise course of action, a new study says.
A diet designed...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 23, 2025
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TUESDAY, Dec. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cutting-edge cancer drugs are being tested all the time, potentially saving or extending the lives of patients who take part in clinical trials.
So why don’t more cancer patients enroll in these trials for experimental drugs?
It comes down to money, a new study says.
Financial factors — not race or background — ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 23, 2025
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MONDAY, Dec. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new evidence review offers some sobering info for folks preparing to raise more than a couple celebratory glasses during Christmas or New Year’s.
Alcohol significantly increases a person’s risk of developing a wide range of cancers, and...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 15, 2025
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THURSDAY, Dec. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Childhood leukemia can land a family in dire financial straights, a new study says.
Nearly a third of families develop serious financial difficulties while their child receives chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 11, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new study suggests popular GLP-1 drugs, like Ozempic and Zepbound, may not lower cancer risk as some had hoped.
Researchers analyzed 48 randomized trials including 94,245 adults who were overweigh...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- December 10, 2025
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TUESDAY, Dec. 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer survival might depend on what time of day you get your treatment, a new study says.
Lung cancer patients who received IV immunotherapy doses earlier in the day tended to live longer, according to results published online Dec. 8 in the journal <...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- December 9, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Hemorrhoids are a common condition that affects about half of all people by age fifty.
Although hemorrhoids are usually harmless, some worry that they may be a sign of cancer. While certain symptoms of hemorrhoids, colorectal cancer, and
- Richard Wender, MD, Professor and Chair, Family Medicine and Community Health, Perelman School of Medicine and Michael Sapienza, CEO of the Colorectal Cancer Alliance HealthDay Reporters
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- December 3, 2025
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MONDAY, Nov. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a powerful new essay, Tatiana Schlossberg wrote about learning she had terminal cancer at the same time she was becoming a new mother.
Schlossberg, 35, the granddaughter of former President <...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- November 24, 2025
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MONDAY, Nov. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Thyroid cancer is often a highly treatable disease. Most cases are detected in early stages and have excellent outcomes. There are several different types of thyroid cancer, and recent changes in management — especially for low-risk cases — are transforming care.
More than 90% of thyroid cancers are differentiated thyroid cancers...
- Jennifer Ogilvie, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery (Oncology, Endocrine) HealthDay Reporter
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- November 17, 2025
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FRIDAY, Nov. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration has directed U.S. visa officers to consider chronic health conditions such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancer and mental health disorders when deciding whether to approve a foreigner’s entry into the country.
The directive was shared with U.S. embassies and consulates in a Nov. 6 cable from Secretary of...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- November 14, 2025
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FRIDAY, Nov. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A growing number of desperate cancer survivors are turning to crowdfunding to help pay for their treatment and living expenses, a new study says.
However, only 1 in 9 campaigns reached their fundraising goals, calling into question how much help they really provided, researchers reported in the November issue of the
FRIDAY, Nov. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Radiation therapy is a highly effective way to treat cancers, but only if patients make it to their regular treatment sessions.
Unfortunately, as many as 1 out of 5 U.S. cancer patients miss two or more of their recommended radiation appointments, increasing their risk of dying from cancer or suffering a repeat bout of disease.
But prov...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- November 14, 2025
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FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Millions of Americans carry hidden genetic mutations that increase their risk of cancer, regardless of their family’s cancer history, according to a new study.
As many as 5% of Americans, or about 17 million, have genetic variants linked to cancer, researchers recently reported in the
FRIDAY, Oct. 31, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More than half of American adults don’t know that alcohol increases a person’s risk of cancer, a new study says.
About 53% of adults surveyed did not know that drinking increases the odds of developing cancer, researchers reported Oct. 30 in JAMA Oncol...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 31, 2025
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MONDAY, Oct. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The most common cholesterol drug around might help protect cancer patients from “chemo brain.”
Statins appeared to protect breast and lymphoma cancer patients’ brain function for up to two years after their cancer treatment, researc...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 27, 2025
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FRIDAY, Oct. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The mRNA technology powering some COVID vaccines may hold a surprising benefit for advanced cancer patients: a potential ability to "rev up" the immune system to better use immunotherapy medicines to attack tumors.
Preliminary research published Oct. 22 in the journal Nature...
- Deanna Neff HealthDay Reporter
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- October 24, 2025
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THURSDAY, Oct. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Kids with a rare bone cancer might live longer if prescribed a drug that blocks blood supply to tumors, researchers say.
The drug pazopanib (Votrient) extended the lives of a small group of kids with Ewing sarcoma, which causes cancerous tumors in their bones, researchers report in the ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 23, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 22, 2025 (HealthDay News) — What kills cancer patients is where their malignancy spreads in their body, rather than the cancer itself, a new study says.
If tumors spread into major blood vessels, they can spark blood clotting that contributes to organ failure, researchers recently reported in the journal
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Loneliness or social isolation might lower a cancer patient’s odds of survival, according to a new evidence review.
Cancer patients who feel lonely appear to have a higher risk of death, both from their malignancy and from other health problems, researchers reported Oct. 14 in the journal
TUESDAY, Oct. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Former President Joe Biden is now receiving radiation and hormone therapy to treat an aggressive form of prostate cancer, his office confirmed Saturday.
“As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radia...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- October 14, 2025
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TUESDAY, Oct. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients aren’t just battling a deadly disease — part of their time and energy can also be spent fighting the system intended to cure them, a new study says.
Half of cancer patients who needed prior insurance authorization for their
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Experts argue it’s never too late to quit smoking, and a new study says that applies to people with late-stage cancer as well.
Patients with advanced cancer gained nearly a full year of additional ...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 10, 2025
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FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients are more likely to survive if they live in a state that expanded its Medicaid program under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), new research shows.
Patients were more likely to have higher five-year and overall survival rates if their state had expanded Medicaid, researchers reported Oct. 8 in the journal
THURSDAY, Oct. 9, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The financial hit from cancer care can prove fatal to some patients battling the dread disease, a new study says.
Patients whose credit rating drops after their cancer diagnosis are more likely to die fighting their malignancy, researchers reported Tuesday at the Am...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 9, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 8, 2025 (HealthDay news) — A rare but dangerous form of breast cancer is on the rise in the United States, a new report says.
Lobular breast cancer rates are rising three times as fast as all other breast cancers combined, 2.8% per year versus 0.8% per year, rese...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 8, 2025
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TUESDAY, Oct. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Fighting cancer can leave patients tired to their bones and researchers now think they might know why.
Inflammation was linked to fatigue among nearly 200 women with early-stage breast cancer during and after treatment with radiation or chemotherapy,...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- October 7, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — About 19 million U.S. adults take fish oil supplements, often to protect against chronic diseases. But new research suggests their ability to lower colon cancer risk may depend on a single gene.
Scientists at the Univer...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- September 24, 2025
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The fight against America’s opioid crisis does not appear to have cost cancer patients the painkillers they need, a new study says.
There was a decline in opioid prescriptions among cancer patients between 2016 and 2020, researchers reported in the October issue of the journal
TUESDAY, Sept. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Liliana “Lili” Casteneda had what she thought was her first period at the age of 14, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
But then her monthly bleeding turned into daily bleeding, and the bleeding got so bad Casteneda soaked through pads in 15 minutes and became dizzy when standing up.
Her local doctor told her it w...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- September 23, 2025
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TUESDAY, Sept. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Remote monitoring of cancer patients can improve their recovery after surgery, a new study says.
People whose health team tracked their symptoms remotely wound up recovering more quickly from surgery, researchers reported in the journal
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- September 23, 2025
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THURSDAY, Sept. 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An experimental wireless patch might help injured athletes better recover from muscle tears, sprains and strains, according to a new study.
The patch measures tissue stiffness by sending sound waves along the surface of the body and listening to the resulting vibrations, researchers said recently in the journal
TUESDAY, Sept. 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — “Liquid biopsy” tests using blood samples to screen for multiple types of cancer are attracting much attention, for their potential to catch unseen tumors.
But it's too soon to tell whether they're truly useful in the fight against cancer, a new evidence review warns.
These multicancer early detection (MCD) tests are comme...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- September 16, 2025
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FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A common nutrient found in leafy greens and corn may do more than protect eyesight.
New research shows that zeaxanthin, a plant-derived carotenoid, can strengthen the body’s cancer-fighting immune cells and make immunotherapy more effective.
The study, recently published in the journal
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women who overcome cervical cancer might have another potentially life-threatening health crisis on their horizon, researchers say.
Cervical cancer survivors have nearly double the risk of developing anal cancers compared to the general populat...
- Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
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- September 12, 2025
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THURSDAY, Sept. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new shampoo-like gel developed by researchers at Michigan State University could help protect cancer patients from a common and dreaded side effect of chemotherapy: Hair loss.
The gel, which has been tested in animal models, is designed ...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- September 4, 2025
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THURSDAY, Sept. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Prostate cancer rates are climbing in the U.S. with more men being diagnosed at later stages when the disease is harder to treat, researchers report.
The analysis — published Tuesday in the journal
TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Celebrity chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay revealed he had surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma, a common form of skin cancer, from his jawline.
The 58-year-old announced the news on social media during the Labo...
- I. Edwards HealthDay Reporter
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- September 2, 2025
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TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Stricken with cancer in infancy, Jessica Lopez endured tumor-fighting treatments that saved her young life but also left her with lasting heart damage.
By the time she reached her early 30s, Lopez, who was left blind by her cancer, also found herself in triple-organ failure — her heart, liver and kidneys were shutting down. &nbs...
- Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter
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- September 2, 2025
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