In her new book, “ The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession With Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker, ” O’Sullivan contends most doctors who see a large volume of patients regularly encounter young ...

While new cancer diagnoses have decreased overall since the 1990s, increases in obesity-related cancers are likely slowing this progress, according to the CDC. About two thirds of U.S. adults and ...

For our sixth annual Cancer Health 25, we salute patient advocates for their unwavering efforts to support the cancer community. To be clear, our Cancer Health 25 is not a “best of” list or a “most ...

My PSA was 3.95 ng/mL, and my internist was growing jittery. So he referred me to a urologist, who conducted a needle biopsy during which he poked my anesthetized prostate 14 times to remove tiny ...

In Dark Waters, Ruffalo portrays the real-life corporate lawyer Robert Bilott, who in 1998 became an environmental crusader. That year, while visiting his grandmother in West Virgina, Bilott, who ...

Sometimes life can be a precarious balancing act. This balance can be disrupted in any number of ways – including the loss of a job or a divorce or a cancer diagnosis. Traumas like this can lead to ...

I found an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic [in Rochester, Minnesota] who specializes in CLL. Initial blood tests suggested a less than 20% chance that I would need treatment in the next five years and ...

The Biden Initiative had begun to make progress toward those goals before it closed its doors for good. It created the Oncology Clinical Trial Information Commons, a collaboration among nine ...

Cancer vaccines are not a new idea, but they fell out of favor after disappointing results in early studies. Now, a better understanding of how cancer develops and how the immune system responds to it ...

Kamath and colleagues from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed nonprofit cancer organizations with more than $5 million in ...

Wet your hands with clean, running water (warm or cold), turn off the tap, and apply soap. Lather your hands by rubbing them together with the soap. Lather the backs of your hands, between your ...

Don’t believe it? Jamaican music icon Bob Marley was just 36 when he died of an aggressive form of melanoma (acral lentiginous melanoma) known for primarily affecting people of color. What’s more, ...