Studies suggest that if you made full-body scans part of your regular routine, you’d find a bunch of cancers over the years, ...

A viewpoint published in The Journal of the American Medical Association recommended refining the definition of cancer and reexamining how the disease is detected and treated. Laura Esserman, one of ...

5The situation: A group of experts advising the nation's premier cancer research institution has recommended sweeping changes in the approach to cancer detection and treatment. 5The reactions: It is ...

A new definition of rectal cancer in the Netherlands prompted reclassification of cancer as sigmoid tumors, which could lead to better treatment. Rectal and sigmoidal tumors have been hard to ...

Survivorship standards guide multidisciplinary collaboration, addressing resource gaps and enhancing services across all survivorship stages. The definition of survivorship now includes the entire ...

What is a cancer cluster? A cancer cluster is defined by the Centers for Disease Control as a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area ...

Medical researchers use knockout cells to study how genes function and how genes can be used for medical treatments. For example, a knockout cell line for liver cancer might turn off a gene linked ...

Valarie Traynham shares what survivorship means to her, and how the definition has evolved after her diagnosis, during National Cancer Survivors Month. Survivorship can mean something different to ...