HOLLIS, Maine (AP) -- A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes -- and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Supporters are rallying around Planned Parenthood after renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure decided to cut breast screening grants to the reproductive health organization.

MANILA (dpa) -- The number of cancer cases worldwide are increasing at an alarming rate and governments must strengthen national programmes to raise awareness and reduce risks and suffering from the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Planned Parenthood said Wednesday that it received more than 400,000 dollars from 6,000 donors in the 24 hours after news broke that its affiliates would be losing grants for breast screenings from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast-cancer foundation.

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) -- A proposed settlement in the W.R. Grace and Co. bankruptcy case would pay $19.5 million into a trust for people sickened by asbestos exposure from the company's now-shuttered vermiculite plant in Libby, Mont.

(Associated Press) -- A warning to men considering a pricey new treatment for prostate cancer called proton therapy: Research suggests it might have more side effects than traditional radiation does.

NEW YORK (AP) -- The nation's leading breast-cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, is halting its partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates -- creating a bitter rift, linked to the abortion debate, between two iconic organizations that have assisted millions of women.

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- A line snakes out of the plastic surgeon's office as women wait to find out if their breast implants have ruptured and how soon they can have them removed.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Federal regulators on Monday approved a pill that treats the most common type of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma.

(USA TODAY) -- The woman walked quietly into the busy emergency room at Grady Memorial Hospital, Atlanta's safety net hospital for the poor and uninsured. She waited four or five hours to be seen, sitting patiently on a gurney and clutching a plastic bag.

CAIRO (Canadian Press) -- A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by genetics, not environment.

CHICAGO (AP) -- About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cervical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.

PARIS (AP) -- The former head of a French company at the center of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide was arrested along with his former deputy Thursday in southeast France, officials said.

(Associated Press) -- Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found.

TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- A class of drug long used to treat prostate enlargement appears to have benefits for men diagnosed with low-risk, localized prostate cancer -- delaying disease progression and reducing patients' anxiety, a Canadian-led international study has found.

BUENOS AIRES (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is set to return to work Wednesday, after a 20-day leave in which she underwent surgery for suspected thyroid cancer that was found to be benign.

TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- "50/50" director Jonathan Levine says he miscalculated how reticent movie-goers would be to see a big-screen story about cancer and hopes viewers will find his acclaimed film on DVD.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico enacted tough new rules Thursday to ban advertising of "miracle cures" for weight loss, sagging body parts and more serious illnesses like prostate ailments, chronic fatigue and even cancer.

TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- While more Canadians are being diagnosed with cancer due in part to the aging population, more are surviving the disease over time, a Statistics Canada study on cancer prevalence has found.

PARIS (dpa) -- Children living near French nuclear power plants may run a greater risk of contracting leukaemia, French media reported Thursday, quoting a study published in the latest edition of the International Journal of Cancer.

ATLANTA (AP) -- The top 15 causes of death in the U.S. in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say they've identified the first genetic mutation with a major effect on the risk of prostate cancer that runs in families and strikes men early, by age 55.

ATLANTA (AP) -- For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top 15 causes of death, government health officials said Wednesday.

BOSTON (AP) -- Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44.

LONDON (AP) -- European health authorities issued widely different recommendations Friday in dealing with potentially faulty French-made breast implants, with Germany and the Czech Republic following France in recommending their removal, while Britain insisted there isn't enough evidence to suggest they should be taken out in all cases.

TORONTO (Canadian Press) -- The Ontario government has scored a victory in its ongoing battle to recoup $50 billion in health-care costs from tobacco companies.