A new kind of cancer treatment is now available in the Pacific Northwest.

A huge international effort involving more than 100 institutions and genetic tests on 200,000 people has uncovered dozens of signposts in DNA that can help reveal further a person's risk for breast, ovarian or prostate cancer, scientists reported Wednesday.

It's something men think about as we get older: prostate cancer. And for good reason, prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis for men today.

Ryanair has made the biggest-ever order of Boeing planes by a European airline, announcing Tuesday it will buy 175 aircraft in a major boost for the U.S. aerospace giant.

In a stunning example of when treatment might be worse than the disease, a large review of Medicare records finds that older people with small kidney tumors were much less likely to die over the next five years if doctors monitored them instead of operating right away.

A retired barber accused of shooting a California urologist to death in his exam room suffered from prostate problems and was angry about his incontinence after a recent surgery, neighbors said Tuesday.

Ron Sexton, 68, of Eugene is fighting a blood cancer known as Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS), the same sort of pre-leukemia that afflicted Robin Roberts from "Good Morning America."

Death rates from cancer are continuing to inch down, researchers reported Monday.

A U.S. official says retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991, has died. He was 78.

Emerging from more than a decade at war, military families are confronting a new worry at home: the prospect that a deal between Congress and the White House over federal spending cuts could chip away at military benefits.

California Gov. Jerry Brown is being treated with radiation for early stage prostate cancer, his office announced Wednesday.