Towle used her social media accounts to share her experience with a rare bile duct cancer.
Drew Griffin kept his illness private from most of his co-workers and had been reporting up until the day he passed.
Scientific advances and awareness programs have helped fight back cancer deaths, experts say.
It's the smoldering trash from the massive burn pits on US military bases -- sometimes acres in size -- that will soon kill him.
Ed Casaccia's wife Maggie died three weeks ago from breast cancer. He has an unopened box of 21 tablets of her cancer drugs, which he estimates cost $24,000 without insurance. He wants to give the medication to someone who needs it, but that task has proven impossible.
A US medical task force is recommending that people of average risk start getting screened for colon cancer at age 45, rather than 50.