cancer

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Days before spring training, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Some doctors think that gene testing to predict a patient’s response to weight-loss drugs could become as routine as what is done for other diseases like breast cancer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Last week, children's cancer charity Neuroblastoma UK said it had decided to "part ways" with Mills, who had been a patron since 2021.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

"This could suggest that, to develop treatments for pancreatic cancer metastasis, the gene may not need to be entirely shut down to have a positive effect," says Feinberg.

From Science Daily • Apr. 7, 2026

He died at age seventy-two of kidney cancer, a disease that afflicted many of the sailors who survived the K-19 disaster.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin