Most women should start regular breast cancer screening at age 50, according to new guidelines released Monday by the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Only seven years ago the Task Force set the ideal start age for regular mammograms at 40.

"Want to donate your change to breast cancer awareness?" I was asked at the Target store counter. I said yes, and gladly. But how will these campaigns be affected by the woman who lied about having breast cancer to pay for implants?

Legendary former pro basketball player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has leukemia. He was diagnosed in December of 2008. He played 20 seasons in the NBA.

Nancy Lopez Golf is in its third year as a pink partner of the Golf Fore the Cure, a program run by the Royal Canadian Golf Association. The program is a Canadian fund raising initiative to benefit breast cancer research and support programs.

Organ transplants save lives. There can also be complications when it comes to having a new organ. The medication that stops the body from rejecting the new organ can also at times cause the body to develop cancer.

Actor Dennis Hopper has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and he has announced he is canceling all travel plans to focus on treatment.

Yves Saint Laurent, the French fashion icon who passed away in June 2008 of brain cancer at age 71, earned more than Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and J.R.R. Tolkien.

Scientists believe they have found a curry compound that can kill cancer cells within 24 hours and could possibly be used as an anti-cancer treatment.

Once a month women are told to examine their breasts to check for lumps. These exams are important but often forgotten. A new product, Breastlight, could change that.

Award-winning composer and producer of dozens of musicals, Andrew Lloyd Webber, has been diagnoed with prostate cancer, according to his spokesperson who released the news on Sunday.

Dr. Mechthild Bach is charged with 13 counts of manslaughter. Between 2001 and 2003, 13 of her cancer patients received "lethal doses of morphine and Valium." Bach contends that she is wrongly accused. If convicted, she could face life in prison.

A UN draft agreement aimed at limiting Iran's nuclear program to peaceful purposes, such as cancer diagnosis and treatment, has been sent to Iran, the US, France and Russia.

British scientists have discovered that pregnant women can transmit some forms of cancer - including a serious type of leukemia and skin cancer - to their unborn babies.

American dogs who have cancer are now able to get help from experimental drugs before they are available to humans. Trials are now in progress and some cancers in dogs have disappeared.

British soldier, Matthew Millington, 31, died at home in Brown Lees, England after receiving lungs from a donor who was known to have smoked between 30 and 50 cigarettes per day.

In a new study, researchers found a link between a retrovirus - the same virus that is associated with prostate cancer - and chronic-fatigue syndrome. The finding represents a new window on understanding CFS.

In Britain, a teenage girl has suffered from seizures and brain damage after taking the Cervarix cervical cancer vaccine, which protects teenage girls from contracting the cancer. This is one of many cases related to the vaccine.

A spokesman for Gen. David Petraeus, top commander for the U.S. in the Middle East, has confirmed that the general was diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer earlier in the year.

A recent collaborative study says a powerful fish-killing toxin, known as euglenophycin, could have cancer-killing properties.

An air hostess who travelled around the world working for Virgin and enjoyed topping up her tan on her rest days has died of skin cancer at the age of 25.