After someone is diagnosed with stomach cancer (gastric cancer), doctors will do exams and tests to help determine if it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a ...

Colorectal cancer might not cause symptoms right away, but if it does, it may cause one or more of these symptoms. Colorectal cancers can often bleed into the digestive tract. Sometimes the blood can ...

If you are diagnosed with thyroid cancer, doctors will try to figure out whether it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a cancer describes how much cancer is ...

Every person can take two actions to greatly reduce their risk of developing and dying from the most common types of cancer in the United States: Make efforts to reduce those harmful everyday habits ...

“Discarding unnecessary medication is really important. Exposure or accidental ingestion are concerns, especially if you have ...

If your cancer has come back, your doctor might suggest a biopsy to verify that it’s a recurrence instead of a second cancer. “By analyzing those cells through a biopsy, we can confirm whether they ...

Over the last 30 years, the risk of dying from cancer has steadily declined, sparing some 4 million lives in the United States. This downward trend can partially be explained by big wins in smoking ...

The American Cancer Society (ACS) is significantly evolving the guideline about who is considered to have a high risk for developing lung cancer and should get screened for it each year with a ...

About 1 in 8 newly diagnosed cancers worldwide (almost 2.5 million new cases, which is about 12% of all new cases of cancers diagnosed in the world) About 1 in 5 deaths from cancer (about 1.8 million ...

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, was signed into law on March 23, 2010, it was a historic moment — in fact, it was the biggest change to US health care since ...

HPV can be passed from one person to another by intimate skin-to-skin contact. It’s not spread through blood or body fluids. HPV can be spread to someone else even when an infected person has no signs ...

A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. It happens when the body’s normal process of making and replacing cells doesn’t work as it should. When a neoplasm forms into an abnormal growth, ...