For some people, advanced or metastatic cancer can be managed as a chronic illness. With this approach, cancer and its symptoms can be controlled for a long period of time with cancer treatment.

Palliative care is a special approach to caring for anyone with a serious illness, including cancer. The goal is to help a person live as well as they can for as long as they can.

Long-time friends Irma McCoy and Evelyn Ealy first met in the 1980s when their daughters played on the same softball team.

The American Cancer Society awarded 14 new Discovery Boost grants and 4 new Mission Boost grants across 17 institutions this ...

At Making Strides Against Breast Cancer events, participants walk to celebrate and honor breast cancer survivors, thrivers, and caregivers, educate the public about prevention and detection to reduce ...

Getting support from a weight loss counselor or therapist can help people lose weight. Intensive behavioral therapy (IBT) ...

Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) is one of the options available to some people to help with excess body weight.

Weight-loss drugs (or medicines) are one of the options available for people who want help with weight loss. They work in ...

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive type of invasive breast cancer. TNBC differs from other types of invasive breast cancer in that it tends to grow and spread faster, has fewer ...

Although the AJCC (TNM) staging system (see Liver Cancer Stages) is often used to describe the spread of a liver cancer, doctors use more practical system to determine a person’s treatment options: ...

Thirty-eight new postdoctoral fellowships and two Clinician Scientist Development Grants have been awarded by the American ...

The day a person hears the words, "you have cancer," can feel like the world stops turning. But for Roy S. Johnson, a ...