Officials in Oregon are moving forward with cancer surgery plans for a 13-year-old girl whose mother had allegedly prevented her from getting the procedure in favor of CBD oil. An attorney for the Oregon Department of Justice said during a court hearing on Monday that Kylee Dixon has a doctor’s appointment this week but no …
Noah Adams will be allowed to use ‘alternative treatments’ as he undergoes chemo
A Florida judge placed a 3-year-old boy battling leukemia with his maternal grandparents amid allegations that his parents stopped his chemotherapy treatments and took him to Kentucky. Hillsborough County police accused Joshua McAdams, 27, and Taylor Bland-Ball, 22, of seeking natural remedies for their son’s acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Last Monday, authorities in Florida issued an …
A 5-year-old cancer survivor who was days away from her celebrating her first anniversary of completing chemotherapy was reportedly killed when she was crushed by an empty SUV. According to The Toronto Star, Camila Torcato was standing with her father outside St. Raphael Catholic School, in Ontario, Canada, on Monday when the pair was struck …
A woman battling stage 4 breast cancer married the love of her life at a Connecticut hospital, then passed away 18 hours later. Heather Mosher, 31, and David Mosher exchanged vows at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford on December 22. The groom told ABC News that they pushed the wedding up from December 30 after …
An Iowa teen who recently beat cancer said her high school reprimanded her for wearing a hat. The Hawk Eye reported that Chloe Terpenning, 15, was diagnosed with stage II Hodgkin’s lymphoma in March and lost her hip-length hair shortly after undergoing chemotherapy. Now in remission, the West Burlington High School freshman claimed she had to …
A Washington Township, New Jersey, man is accused of faking a brain tumor to solicit online donations. The Pascack Valley Daily Voice reported that Hillsdale Police charged Joseph O’Connell, 29, with theft by deception for allegedly receiving donations for a cancerous brain tumor that he never had. Police caught wind of the deplorable scheme earlier this month after …
A link has been found between breast implants and a rare form of cancer, which has killed at least nine people, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Tuesday. The cancer, called anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL), is a rare type of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma involving cells in the immune system that can develop following …
