Jo Turner has hand-sewn more than 5,500 specialized pouches that are used to help patients securely manage their surgical ...

The early diagnosis of lung cancer improves the probability of successful treatment. However, patients and physicians face several difficulties that can considerably delay the diagnostic process. A ...

For some patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancers like colorectal and pancreatic cancer, chemotherapy can cause severe, sometimes life-threatening side effects in those who carry certain genetic ...

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of ...

Two years ago, Emma Dimery was told her stage 4 colon cancer was incurable. Today, she is healthy and cancer-free — and she says a last-resort clinical trial saved her life. Dimery, who lives in ...

New Rutgers research suggests that much of the seemingly endless waiting for complex medical care can be engineered away by re-creating operations inside a computer and testing countless possible ...

Kelly Spill didn’t cry when she was diagnosed with stage III rectal cancer at age 28. She held her emotions together when her surgeon told her that she might not be able to carry another baby — ...

The FDA could approve the first blood test that can detect multiple cancers, around the end of the year, setting the stage ...

On top of dealing with what may be painful and stressful medical treatment, cancer patients sometimes find themselves befuddled and burdened by awkward gifts or gestures from friends and family ...

The study showed that an experimental pill from the company Revolution Medicines almost doubled metastatic pancreatic cancer patients’ survival times compared with chemotherapy.

The Healing Sanctuary gives cancer survivors space to step away from their daily responsibilities and make room for deep ...