"I'm not afraid of catching cancer," said Marleene Pala, who has lived on the block 10 years and in the industrial neighborhood all her 40 years.

"You can catch cancer if you live in the country."

Regular Pap tests catch cervical cancer at an early stage when it can easily be cured.

The willowy blonde married a millionaire, the husband of the perky brunette beat her up and the redhead caught cancer.

Then one afternoon at finishing time she told my mother that she would have to quit because she didn't want to catch cancer from my grandmother.

And about three months later she caught cancer and with alarming swiftness died.

Can you catch cancer?

One can't compare catching someone's cold or flu to perhaps "catching" cancer.

We don't want people to think they can catch cancer.

And how his No. 1 best friend "caught cancer and died" last summer.