Van Halen was diagnosed with mouth cancer in 2000 and had tongue surgery. He was later diagnosed with throat cancer and reportedly had been receiving radiation treatment in Germany. He famously blamed ...

Here's a growing list of the approved hormone therapies, immunotherapies and targeted therapies for treating cancer. Click on any of the drugs for more info on dosing, side effects and drug ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may have saved her life. She recognized oncology nurse Sharon Gentry, RN, from a newspaper article. Gentry, who has served on the leadership council of the Academy of Oncology Nurse & Patient ...

Aucatzyl is a type of immunotherapy that reprograms a patient’s own T cells to fight cancer. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—better known as CAR-T— invol ves removing a sample of a patient’s ...

Many men will have options for fathering children after cancer treatment. These may include banking sperm and freezing testicular tissue prior to treatment. Saving testicular tissue can potentially ...

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 ...

When you picture someone with Stage IV lung cancer, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s likely to be a frail-looking older man or woman with thinning hair tethered to an oxygen tank and moving ...

Although the results showed no differences in the rates of regular or “timely” mammograms in women across the sexuality spectrum, they found that lesbian women were up to 25% less likely to get ...

Comparing the two data sets, the researchers found that oropharyngeal cancer risk was positively correlated with a younger age at the time of first oral sex, having oral contact the first time they ...