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Jake Owen is a big country star with a very big heart. With the help of a few other artists and caring folks, the singer recently raised more than $200,000 for the Kids Cancer Alliance.

So many times when we read the paper or look for news on the web, all we see is stuff that's depressing or going to kill you. So I thought today we'd share a happy, inspiring story. It's the story of one kid, Spencer Wilson.

As someone who has seen cancer up close, I can tell you that often, it's not pretty.  And for a lot of us, how we look is intrinsic to our personal identity.  If you don't look like yourself, you don't feel like yourself.  So In collaboration with the American Cancer Society, Bothwell Regional Health Center offers "Look Good, Feel Better."

Brad Paisley and wife Kimberly Williams-Paisley (of 'Nashville') were recently swept up in a cruel hoax that all started with an email from a woman claiming her daughter was dying of neuroblastoma, a form of pediatric cancer.

We all remember "planking," right? Where you would take a picture of yourself lying flat like a plank in as creative ways as possible. Then there was Tebowing, Owling, and all of those other things. Well now there's a internet photo trend: mamming.

We here at our stations are working to help out with breast cancer awareness.  And part and parcel with that is working toward a cure.  here are all sorts of creative ideas for how to try to solve this health conundrum.  So we decided to take the bull by the... teats?  I think my analogy is wrong here.  But read on, brave internetter!  I'll get my metaphors together soon.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We've put together a list of seven of the best charities most deserving of your support.

Seeing Carrie Underwood live in concert is a treat in itself. But singing onstage with the country superstar? For 10-year-old Kaitlyn Finn, who is a survivor of liver cancer, it was a dream come true.

Regardless of your politics, you have to admit this is a class move by former President George H.W. Bush.

Okay, we're not saying there's an upside to cancer, but this is pretty cool.