Cancer question complicates 9/11 deal Linking disease to exposure to toxic dust from WTC site proves elusive NEW YORK - Of all the illnesses people fear might be caused by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, nothing scares people like cancer. Hundreds of people are suing New York City over cancer diagnoses they received after working at ground zero. A judge last week rejected a $575 million legal settlement for thousands of sick 9/11 responders in part because he thought it should ...

Patrick Shwayze died of pancreatic cancer Patrick Shwayze died , Patrick Shwayze, Patrick Shwayze dead, Patrick Shwayze death, Patrick Shwayze dies, Patrick Shwayze news Patrick Shwayze, whose good looks and sympathetic performances in films such as "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" made him a romantic idol to millions, died Monday. He was 57. Patrick Shwayze's doctor said in March 2008 that Shwayze was suffering from pancreatic cancer. Shwayze died of pancreatic cancer, his publicist, Annett Wolf, told CNN. Shwayze's doctor, Dr. George Fisher, revealed in early ...

Christina Aguilar sits in a converted storage room of a Las Vegas medical center, the best hope for underinsured cancer patients to get the treatment they need. Drip by drip, Aguilar, 28, watches as chemo enters her body to fight advanced-stage ovarian cancer. She is here because her insurance company wouldn't pay for her chemotherapy or her surgeries. "I thought, 'Why am I getting insurance if it's not going to pay for the most important thing' " she says, recalling ...

Cancer doesn't discriminate. It affects men, women, and children of all ages, nationalities. This disease affects people in every corner of the world. Cases continue to rise. In fact, cancer will take over as the world's leading cause of death globally by 2010. It accounted for 7.9 million deaths in 2007, according to figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). By 2030, WHO estimates there will be 17 million cancer related deaths worldwide. Lung, stomach, liver, colon and ...

Pan Am Flight 103 was 31,000 feet in the air, heading for New York City, when it exploded over Scotland on the longest night of the year, December 21, 1988, killing 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground below. It was the world's deadliest act of air terrorism until the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington, according to the FBI. American and British investigators painstakingly pieced together the aircraft's wreckage and found it had ...

If all goes according to plan, cancer survivor Kyle Garlett will compete in October's Ford Ironman World Championship, a grueling triathlon made up of a 2.4-mile ocean swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and a 26.2-mile run. And he'll do it with another man's heart pumping in his chest. "I don't think there's anybody who wouldn't consider me a success story and a survivor," Garlett said. His medical issues began in 1989 when he received his first Hodgkin's disease diagnosis ...

Women diagnosed with early stage breast cancer are faced with a tough choice — either to have parts of the affected breast removed, followed by several weeks of potentially toxic radiation therapy; or opt for mastectomy, removing the entire breast and contending with the disfigurement that entails. The decision typically rests on where and how widespread the tumors are. It's no wonder, then, that more and more women are relying on high-tech MRI scans to help them examine their ...

TIME senior writer Karen Tumulty sat down with President Barack Obama on Tuesday afternoon to talk about his work both in public and behind the scenes to push a health-care-reform measure through Congress. Here's an excerpt of the full transcript, which will be published on TIME.com on July 30. TIME: So how much of your day are you spending on this President Obama: Well, I think over the last two, three weeks I'd say I'm spending at least ...

"Sometimes I get a little frustrated," Barack Obama admitted to AARP in late July, "because this is one of those situations where it's so obvious that the system we have isn't working well for too many people, and that we could just be doing better." He was talking about health care, of course. As Washington collapsed toward its August recess, the President's reform efforts were looking distinctly iffy, even though he is absolutely right about the need for change. ...

Lance Armstrong returned to the Tour de France for first time in four years by finishing 10th in the opening time trial in Monaco which was won by Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland. Cancellara, renowned for his awesome performances against the clock, clocked 19 minutes 32.14 seconds for the 15.5 kilometer course in the Mediterranean principality. Armstrong's Astana teammate and Tour favorite Alberto Contador finished in second place at 18 seconds with Britain's Bradley Wiggins in third. Seven-time Tour ...