HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The families of young people diagnosed with a rare childhood cancer confronted Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf on Monday over what they called his administration’s insufficient...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists are closing in on a way to help young boys undergoing cancer treatment preserve their future fertility — and the proof is the first monkey born from the experimental...

CHICAGO (AP) — Former Chicago Bears cornerback Charles Tillman says he has a fear of water, but it won't stop him from building a boat and rowing across Lake Michigan for childhood cancer...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (AP) — Rockford University's Jane Addams Center for Civic Engagement is having a unique fundraiser for St. Baldrick's Foundation.

DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) — Losing a child to cancer is something parents don't want to think about. However, three Wiregrass mothers know firsthand the pain their children felt, and the pain their family felt as their child lost a battle to childhood cancer. That's why Alicia Hayes, Marci Harrison, and Lindsey Rushing are joining forces to host the inaugural Golden Gala.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Federal data shows Maine has high rates of childhood cancer, and experts are trying to figure out why.

The Bangor Daily News reports a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the state's rate of cancer in patients under 20 was 190.5 per million residents, compared to the national average of 173.7.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A nonprofit organization established by a two-time survivor of childhood cancer is donating iPads to children's hospitals in West Virginia.

Walking Miracles Family Foundation founder Brett Wilson said in a statement the iPads contain apps that help explain procedures the children will be going through and provide games and activities to entertain them.

FORT MILL, S.C. (AP) — Twenty-year-old Alex W. Guerrero knew last week he was dying. The bone cancer he had fought since 2015 was terminal.

His fiancee, Morgan Gaile Krohn, 22, and a childhood cancer survivor herself, said she knew it too.

"Alex was my soul mate, the one, from as soon as I met him last year," Krohn said. "I knew. He knew. We knew. From the first week we did everything together."

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire health officials said Friday they haven't found any common cause or origin behind a cancer cluster in the state's Seacoast region.

The state Department of Health and Human Services for several years has been investigating a greater-than-expected number of cases of two types of rare childhood cancers: rhabdomyosarcoma and pleuropulmonary blastoma.

REDDING, Conn. (AP) — Kevin Keating, 15, squinted as a stylist shaved off the first piece of his thick sandy hair. A dozen of his friends from Joel Barlow High School crowded around, laughing and shooting videos on their phones.

Keating was one of more than 40 Joel Barlow students and teachers shorn this month to raise awareness and money to fight childhood cancer through the St. Baldrick's Foundation.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A task force that's been studying two rare pediatric cancer clusters in the Seacoast area has passed an interim report on its investigation, which will be delivered to Gov. Maggie Hassan.

Hassan formed the Seacoast Pediatric Cancer Cluster Task Force after officials found a small cluster of rhabdomyosarcoma (rab-doh-my-oh-sar-KOH'-mah), one of two rare types of childhood cancer. Another cluster was also identified.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — A task force that's been studying two rare pediatric cancer clusters in the Seacoast area is expected to vote on the final draft of its interim report to Gov. Maggie Hassan.

State Rep. Tom Sherman, who chairs the task force, tells The Portsmouth Herald (http://bit.ly/2gKdGPu ) the report is expected to include a recommendation to provide municipal water to homes within one mile of the Coakley landfill, a Superfund cleanup site.