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Florida Toddler Diagnosed With Cancer Is in Desperate Need of Extremely Rare Blood to Survive
Two-year-old Zainab Mughal has some of the rarest blood in the world.
The Florida toddler has been battling cancer, and to survive, she's likely to need blood transfusions from seven to 10 donors who haven't all been found.
That's because they're as rare as she is.
Only people of Pakistani, Indian or Iranian descent who have the same type of blood as Zainab, whose family hails from Pakistan, are likely to match with her. Less than 4% of people in those populations may match, according to OneBlood, a South Florida nonprofit organization that's aiding in a global search to identify…
What Your Blood Tells You About Cancer
A drop of blood can reveal a lot about a cancer, and two recently approved tests dramatically improve cancer treatment
Why we have different blood types and why they matter
Meet the toddler who survived breast cancer
Struck by an extremely rare form of breast cancer, toddler underwent a full mastectomy, with her mom and teddy bears by her side.
How You Can Help Medical Research
Learn more about how you or a loved one can advance cancer research by donating blood and tissue samples.
Why Some Cancer Patients Are Losing Their Fingerprints
A strange and rare side effect of some cancer drugs
Could this blood test eventually screen people for cancer?
Liquid Biopsy Blood Test May Find Cancer Before Symptoms Start
Why do we have blood types?
More than a century after their discovery, we still don’t really know what blood types are for. Do they really matter? Carl Zimmer investigates.
We All Have A Reason To Stand Up To Cancer. What's Yours?
For me, cancer is personal; given the statistics, it’s likely to be personal for all of us.
What It's Like to Be Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at Age 30
'The fear of a terrible outcome prevented me from seeking the truth’
How to Help a Friend With Breast Cancer
How to give people with breast cancer the support they really need.
5 little-known breast cancer facts
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in women. But there are still some things you may not know about it.
What to Do When Your Dog Has Cancer
There are a multitude of cancers that affect the bodies, organs, and systems of our dogs. Included in this are tumors, bone and blood cancers, and cancers of the skin, stomach, lungs, liver, intestines, brain, and other organs. What is the next step when your dog has been diagnosed with cancer? Read more.
5 Common Cancer Myths You Shouldn't Believe Anymore
They say what you don't know can't hurt you. But when it comes to cancer, it's what you think you know that could actually kill you. It's time to correct 5 commonly held, but false beliefs about the big C.
Does Vitamin D Help Protect Against Cancer?
Vitamin D deficiency may cause disorders associated with weak bones. However, some evidence has emerged suggesting that vitamin D may be associated with other diseases, including bowel and lung cancers.
What Is HER2-Positive Breast Cancer?
HER2-positive breast cancer is a subtype of breast cancer that affects about 20 percent of breast cancer patients. Around fifty percent of HER2-positive cancers also have hormone receptors for estrogen and/or progresterone. HER2, which stands for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, is a gene in the cancer cell that …
The 8 Most Preventable Cancers—And How To Slash Your Risk
Cancer often hits like a bolt of lightning—totally unforeseen, seemingly random, chalked up to a bad genetic hand or other forces outside of our control.
How Cancer Survivorship Care is Changing
Cancer survivorship programs and services used to be something that patients would think about as they neared the end of active treatment, but that’s changing. “More Americans are surviving cancer than ever before, and partly as a result of that, the model for survivorship care is changing,” says Ann Partridge, …
How Walking May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
Physical activity, even including walking, can substantially reduce a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, encouraging new science shows, in part, it seems, by changing how her body deals with estrogen.
How garlic can contribute to colon cancer prevention
Learn how to reduce your risk of colorectal cancer, which has the second highest mortality rate of cancers affecting both men and women in the U.S.
New cervical cancer screening guidelines released: What you need to know
The new guidance aims to simplify cervical cancer screenings.
