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Cancer Types

Leukemia

  • Yesterday & Today

    Improbable Champion

    Susan Butcher won Alaska's grueling Iditarod dog-sled race four times. Her 2005 leukemia diagnosis marked the beginning of her greatest challenge.

    by Jocelyn Selim

  • Yesterday & Today

    Shining a Light

    60 Minutes journalist Ed Bradley tried to “shine a light in a dark corner” through his work, but he kept his long struggle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia private.

    by Brittany Moya del Pino

  • The Power of One

    A cancer survivor reflects on the stranger who gave him a second chance at life.

    by Robert Henslin

  • SOS

    Identifying cancer patients in distress moves from rare to routine.

    by Melissa Weber

  • The Survival Gap

    In the Nowhere Land between adult and pediatric cancer treatment, young adults face survival rates that have missed out on the gains seen by other age groups. Can new efforts help them improve their outcomes?

    by Charlotte Huff

  • Cancer In America

    Standard of Care

    Research suggests that black patients, as a whole, aren't receiving the same level of treatment as white patients. Can building better bonds between doctors and patients help?

    by Charlotte Huff

  • The Birth of a Targeted Therapy

    A serendiptious discovery more than 50 years ago heralded a new age of cancer treatment.

    by Jocelyn Selim