This guide will help you understand how throat cancer is diagnosed and what your diagnosis means. Learning as much as you can may help you feel ready to talk with doctors about your care. The ...

Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School have identified a molecular “switch” that determines whether pancreatic cancer cells resist chemotherapy or respond to it—a finding that could help convert some ...

Short facts about the study: basic research // preclinical, quantitative study // in vitro with cell samples from cancer patients // A new study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, ...

During the cancer treatment process, it's important for adolescents and young adults to balance independence while seeking support from loved ones. At 23 years old in 2011, Stacy Leung achieved two ...

Adult survivors of childhood cancers are at higher risk for another cancer—such as breast, colorectal, sarcomas and thyroid cancer—that is not a relapse of their original illness. Previous cancer ...

Anal cancer has been steadily increasing in the United States, with the biggest jumps among older women, especially white and Hispanic women—a shift that challenges assumptions about high-risk groups ...

Breast cancer is becoming increasingly treatable, but in some cases the disease can resurface even decades after a patient has been declared cancer free. This is because of cells that detach from the ...