Experts say cancer patients in the public sector in South Africa are dying for avoidable reasons like dysfunctional referral systems and a lack of medical imaging and treatment. We look at efforts to ...

The National Lung Screening Trial demonstrated a 20% relative reduction in lung cancer mortality with low-dose computed tomography screening, leading to implementation of lung cancer screening across ...

The median time to treatment initiation is increasing across cancer types, and this appears to be driven by an increase in stage I cancer diagnoses, data suggest.

More on Root Causes of Cancer Cancer is a complex and multifaceted disease. While there are many known risk factors for specific types of cancer, the root causes of cancer, in general, can be ...

A venomous creature from the Amazon rainforest may hold the key to fighting one of the deadliest cancers affecting women today. According to the American Cancer Society, skin cancers aside, breast ...

“It is Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer that has spread to my bones,” Feller told her followers, adding that she was “overwhelmed" by the diagnosis. "I am up to my eyeballs in cancer admin.

Appendix cancer diagnoses are increasing among younger adults. Learn about symptoms, risk factors, and the importance of early detection in this growing health concern.

Lung cancer remains the world’s deadliest cancer, and cigarette smoke is its chief culprit. Chemicals in tobacco, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), damage DNA and trigger the mutations ...

Cancer affects millions of Americans each year, with over 2 million new cases diagnosed in 2024 alone—resulting in approximately 5,500 cancer diagnoses and 1,600 deaths per day. 1 While the medical ...

Lung and colorectal cancer rank as the most fatal, with lung and bronchus cancer accounting for 21% of mortalities (Siegel et al., 2023, 2024). Several studies report that lung cancer has the highest ...