No one should face cancer alone. Obviously, researchers and physicians are necessary to diagnose and treat the illness, and oncology nurses and navigators can guide people through the continuum of ...

People who are overweight or obese are at higher risk for at least 13 different types of cancer, which together make up about 40 percent of all cancer diagnoses in the United States, according to the ...

The device, recently approved by the FDA, is as effective as an in-clinic screening and has the potential to increase accessibility for patients, says Colorado University associate professor Christine ...

Growing evidence suggests that personalized vaccines may help prevent cancer recurrence. To create a customized cancer vaccine, scientists genetically sequence a patient’s tumor and identify ...

The overall rate of new cancers in the U.S. has been stable in recent years. And age-adjusted death rates have, on average, been falling. But some recent studies have spotted a troubling trend that ...

Twitter had a field day when President Donald Trump bashed wind power, telling House Republicans: “They say the noise causes cancer.” Tweeted @Pourmecoffee: “Get the Bose Cancer Cancelling headphones.

Pregnant women who contract COVID-19 are more likely to become severely ill and to be hospitalized than women who aren’t pregnant.

Combining standard adjuvant chemotherapy with the immune checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab [Tecentriq] leads to a significant improvement in disease-free survival in a subset of patients with Stage ...

Wearing frozen or tight-fitting gloves during chemotherapy may help prevent painful peripheral neuropathy. Chemotherapy is effective for many types of cancer, but the medications can harm normal cells ...

Breast cancer received the most funding by far, at $460 million, accounting for a third of all cancer-specific nonprofit revenue. Next in line—with less than half the funding of breast cancer—were ...

Patients with colon cancer who consumed an anti-inflammatory diet during a Phase III clinical trial showed longer overall survival post-treatment compared to those on a proinflammatory diet, according ...

Adults under 40 who develop cancers that are rare for their age bracket have a high rate of inherited gene mutations associated with cancer. People with inherited genetic mutations who develop such ...