The cancer threat is a devastating life-changer. In India, the rising number of cancer patients and those dying of the ...

potentially contributing to increasing rates of breast cancer across all ages, experts said. For example, the average age at which a girl gets her first period has dropped over the last 60 years.

Writer Amy Wallen took on a 60-mile Susan G. Komen challenge as a way to test her stamina while doing something positive for friends.