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Then-President Joe Biden, pictured during a White House ceremony in January 2025, has been diagnosed with what his office calls an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer.

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How treatable is prostate cancer? A doctor reacts to Biden's diagnosis

Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in the U.S., and often treatable. One urologist says Biden has good options ahead — largely thanks to recent advances in research.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Philip Santangelo PhD in his lab at Emory University

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  • Health

Emory researcher finds a common thread among many diseases ‘plaguing Americans’

Emory University in Atlanta is now the first recipient of funding through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a new research agency funded through the bipartisan FY22 appropriations bill that Sen. Jon Ossoff helped pass into law. 

October 02, 2023
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Jeremy Nottingham (bottom right) sits for a family photo with his parents, Junius and Sharon, and sister Briana.

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Testing your genes for cancer risk is way cheaper now — and it could save your life

Millions of people in the U.S. have a genetic variant that raises their risk of cancer. Genetic testing can help people find cancer earlier and seek treatment. But many patients aren't offered it.

August 02, 2023
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
When women get a blood test during pregnancy that looks at free-floating DNA, they expect it to tell about the health of the fetus. But the test sometimes finds signs of cancer in the mother.

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  • Health

A new kind of blood test can screen for many cancers — as some pregnant people learn

Testing pregnant people's blood to look at free-floating DNA can tell doctors about the health of the fetus. But these tests sometime turn up DNA that might be shed by cancerous cells.

December 23, 2022
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce

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  • Health

Why I Kept My Cancer A Secret, And Why I Won't Anymore

An NPR correspondent living with incurable cancer says 7% is no solution. That's one estimate of how much — or how little — breast cancer research funding goes toward metastatic disease.

June 22, 2021
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  • Ina Jaffe
Hadiyah-Nicole Green and Tenika Floyd at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta in January 2017.

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'It Was Personal.' After Tragedy, Physicist Devotes Career To Cancer Research

Hadiyah-Nicole Green lost the aunt and uncle who raised her to cancer. The loss inspired her to develop a cancer treatment using lasers. "I was born to do this," she tells her cousin at StoryCorps.

July 10, 2020
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