Colorectal cancer (CRC) is no laughing matter. It’s the second-leading cause of cancer deaths globally, according to the World Health Organization. But new research led by UB suggests that humor can ...

The author faced Hodgkin disease, breast cancer, and lung cancer, emphasizing hope and humor as key survival tools. Humor, especially through jokes, provided relief and a positive outlook during ...

Cancer is undeniably a serious, terrifying thing — so much so that it’s become part of a common expression to describe anything extremely serious, not funny or joking. (Jill: “Are you serious?” Julie: ...

Sometimes, laughter really is the best medicine, so I tried to maintain a sense of humor through my cancer treatments. The other day my wife and teenage daughter were invited to a high tea party. My ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology Art of Oncology article, "Humor Me” by Dr. Stacey Hubay, who is a Medical Oncologist at the Grand River Regional Cancer Center. The essay is followed by ...

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When Grammy-Award-winning musician Marcy Marxer learned she had breast cancer, she didn't get sad or mad. She got funny. Marxer, who's one half of the award-winning duo, Cathy and Marcy started ...

His friends and family praise him as unique, funny, and talented, but according to André Ricciardi, he’s a “f---ing idiot.” Armed with dark humor — and a camera crew — Ricciardi faces cancer and comes ...

Alongside the risk of death or injury in an accident, there’s another occupational hazard for firefighters that unfolds over years and decades: cancer. Firefighters are 9% more likely to be diagnosed ...

In January 2022, high school freshman Anna Eberspacher was diagnosed with a rare cancer, synovial sarcoma, which affects 1 or 2 people out of one million in the U.S. annually, according to the ...