Pair of studies may offer clarity on mammograms

After several years of upheaval over the best way to conduct breast cancer screening, researchers are working to find clarity over when...

Popular breast cancer treatment increases risk of mastectomy

Brachytherapy is an increasingly popular option for women with early-stage breast cancer. After a lumpectomy to remove abnormal tissue,...

Guidelines limiting prostate cancer screening are widely ignored

Guidelines limiting PSA screening for prostate cancer detection in older men are widely ignored, researchers said Tuesday, and physicians...

Breast cancer classification promises better therapies

Researchers have found a way to classify breast cancer tumors into 10 distinct categories ranging from very treatable to extremely...

Warren Buffett's stage 1 prostate cancer: What is it, what's next?

Warren Buffett announced Tuesday that he has stage 1 prostate cancer and that doctors have begun treating it with radiation. Buffett is 81...

Lung cancer screenings 'a good value,' study finds

Screening longtime tobacco users for lung cancer would be less costly than the widely accepted practice of screening for breast, cervical...

Is the price Americans pay for cancer treatment worth the results?

Healthcare in the United States has a reputation for being pricier than care in other countries.  But is it worth the extra expense?

Ingredient in herbal medicines linked to urothelial cancer

If you’ve ever considered taking an herbal remedy under the theory that it can’t hurt and it might help, read this: A study...

My Turn: A woman and a girl, united by cancer and courage

When my 14-year-old niece Lindsey died last year, my friend Mary took it personally. Although separated by decades, Mary Schnack and Lindsey...

Drug may be near for cancer's companion condition cachexia

Bonnie Addario didn't even know there was a word for what was happening to her. As if lung cancer weren't bad enough, the 54-year-old had...

Health 411: Insurance for a cancer survivor

I need help finding affordable health insurance. I got insurance through California's Major Risk Medical Insurance Program in 1991...

In Practice: Doctors bury grief to help patients and families

Rebecca's cancer was born in her bone marrow. Her abnormal blood cells soon broke free of their nest, sailing down the rivers of her...

New Avastin tests add to confusion over use in breast cancer

In November, following an emotional public hearing some months earlier, the Food and Drug Administration withdrew approval for the cancer...

Robotic surgery grows, but so do questions

These days, some surgeons have four arms and are made of metal and plastic.

Sweet revenge on cancer treatment

I was baptized at Our Lady of Hypochondria Church.

My Turn: PSA scare prompts reflection and education

When my family doctor called five years ago with the news that my PSA levels had spiked, I hung up the phone and did what all of us do. I...

My Turn: Make the call — to your doctor

"You have malignant melanoma," the dermatologist told me. But that wasn't the worst of it. The worst part was that thepathologist's report...

My Turn: A teen's brush with death

There are very few specific details I remember about my experience with lung cancer, though it was just eight years ago. But there are...