Earlier today, W. Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, announced her decision to step down as the 17th Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Dr. Rathmell, who assumed the role on December 18, 2023, ...

Recognizing the value of DPD testing, England’s National Health Service (NHS) will be making the test available nationwide, according to The Guardian. The NHS notes that of the 38,000 people with ...

Cervical cancer, usually caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), can be prevented with HPV vaccines, and precancerous cervical cell changes can be detected early with regular Pap smears and HPV tests.

Conversations between older people with cancer and their health care providers may lead to increased physical activity that reduces the risk of falling. Falls can lead to serious problems, such as ...

Currently, the standard treatment for endometrial cancer is a hysterectomy, the surgical removal of the uterus. However, this surgery may be dangerous for women who have obesity or certain other ...

Trans women had a dramatically higher likelihood of developing breast cancer compared with cisgender (non-transgender) men but a lower risk than cisgender women. The opposite was true for trans men.

To find out what’s in the pipeline, we turned to the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. This organization provides multiyear funding for scientists, often at the beginning of their careers, who ...

Cancer develops when cells grow out of control. Blood or hematologic cancers affect blood cells, bone marrow or the lymphatic system. Most blood cancers involve white blood cells, but red blood cells ...

Prior authorization is harming individuals with cancer according to new survey results from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The survey found that prior authorization delays necessary ...

But doctoring was not to remain Shanahan’s profession; cancer saw to that. She was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer in 2008 after a mammogram revealed a malignancy in one of her “fibrocystic, ...

For our fifth annual Cancer Health 25 feature, we want to spotlight the power and the promise of clinical trials. To be clear, this is not a list of the most important clinical trials. Rather it ...

In 1996, former professional road racing cyclist and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who became a disgraced champion for using performance-enhancing drugs, was diagnosed with ...