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3/26/20

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Still Leah Strong: Former NFL Lineman Devon Still Celebrates 5 Years of Daughter Being Cancer-Free: 'It's Just a Blessing'

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3/17/20

10:29 AM

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Former Heavyweight Champion Leon Spinks Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer: 'He's a Champion. He's Going to Keep Fighting'

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1/8/20

12:30 PM

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I'll Take 'Sobbing' for 500: Alex Trebek Supports Rep. John Lewis in Fighting Pancreatic Cancer

Tonja Renée Stidhum

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11/21/19

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Model Slick Woods May Be Fighting Cancer—but She's Nobody's Victim

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8/2/19

11:06 AM

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Wait, What? Trump Claims He Is Going to End the AIDS Epidemic and Will Cure Pediatric Cancer

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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6/2/19

8:17 PM

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Affordable Care Act Reduces Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment: Report

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5/17/19

4:30 PM

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Sterling K. Brown Partners With Bristol-Myers Squibb to Give Cancer Survivors a Community

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4/3/19

3:30 PM

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President Windbag Mistakenly Claims That Windmill Noise Causes Cancer

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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1/21/19

9:37 AM

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Leah Still, Daughter of Former Cincinnati Bengal Devon, Cancer-free 3 Years Later

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8/24/18

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Arizona Sen. John McCain to Stop Cancer Treatment

Stephen A. Crockett Jr.

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6/29/18

3:11 PM

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Fighting Breast Cancer: Tuskegee University Researchers Add a 4th Marker in Breast-Cancer Detection

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6/3/18

11:45 AM

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Black Men Fare Extremely Well in 2 New Prostate-Cancer Studies

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3/2/18

7:55 PM

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No Good Deed: Legally Blind White Man Attacks Black Politician for Trying to Help Him

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12/9/17

11:00 AM

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Because Being a Woman Isn’t Scary Enough: Now Your Birth Control Could Cause Breast Cancer

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11/21/17

8:21 AM

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Bride Holds Surprise Wedding at Hospital Where Father Is Being Treated for Leukemia

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10/24/17

3:28 PM

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Hip-Hop Podcast Host ‘Combat Jack’ Reveals Colon-Cancer Diagnosis

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3/27/17

10:25 AM

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Texas Teen Ebony Banks, Who Was Battling Cancer, Dies 4 Days After Meeting Beyoncé

Breanna Edwards

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3/23/17

6:35 AM

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Beyoncé FaceTimes With Fan Battling Cancer

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2/15/17

9:32 AM

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Family of Henrietta Lacks Seeks Compensation for Unauthorized Use of Her Cells

Breanna Edwards

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1/8/17

2:08 AM

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What's Ailing Bishop Eddie Long?

Lawrence Ware

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