20 Marines, or sons of Marines were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer and they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where records show drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for three decades.

Lightspeed VCT scanner is used in only four hospitals in the world and gives 50 percent less radiation with excellent image quality.

Sibley Hospital, in Washington D.C., is a testing site for a breast cancer vaccine that researchers hope can prevent tumors from coming back in patients. The vaccine is given once a month, for six months with minimal side effects and could be especially beneficial for younger women.

Tanning bed use before age 30 bumps cancer rates 75 percent and cancer experts have moved tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category.

This year, 219,449 new cases will be diagnosed in the U.S.

70 percent of lung cancer patients aren’t diagnosed until the disease has spread.

Only 15 percent of patients are still alive five years after diagnosis.

Researchers are testing a vaccine, called Lucanix™, to see if it can prevent or delay recurrence of lung cancer in patients with advanced disease.

Researchers have found a new way to isolate specific subsets of breast cancer in a biopsy, a test that just might save a woman unneeded treatments to cure that cancer. The new test could eliminate the need for chemo or radiation therapy, or any aggressive treatment at all in some patients.