The future of cancer drug research just might be in Omaha, Nebraska, between a Panda Express and a Mattress Firm. A big draw is speed: Nordquist says he can open a trial in as little as two weeks, ...

Cases of colorectal cancer in younger adults are climbing worldwide, driven by lifestyle changes and inherited genetic risks. Diet, obesity, and lack of early screening are playing a major role in ...

Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers in younger people, but that has brought a debate over whether many cases ever needed to be found. By Gina Kolata The statistics are incontrovertible: ...

Jennifer Capasso, a 42-year-old transgender woman with stage four rectal cancer, filed a discrimination lawsuit against the Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center in New York City after she ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I have read about using the immune system’s response as a mechanism to battle cancer (such as brain and pancreatic) and to reduce the devastating impact that cancer and its treatment ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. Bladder cancer hits men especially hard. The ...

A gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic who treats patients with pancreatic cancer shares the warning signs he looks for in his own body. The disease is stealthy and deadly. Pancreatic cancer isn’t ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – An accident led to a diagnosis that would change one Oklahoma woman’s life forever. A few years ago, she went to the doctor for stomach problems but found something much worse. ...

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death in the U.S., responsible for about 1 in 4, but major advances in screening, surgery and personalized treatment are helping more patients live ...

About 170,000 women in the United States are living with metastatic breast cancer — or cancer that has spread to other organs — and eventually leads to death. Now, a team led in part by oncologists ...

At some point, every doctor becomes a patient. For many physicians, experiencing serious illness and treatment is humbling, eye-opening, and, in the end, transformative. Dr. Patient is a Medscape ...

Nicole Hansen was diagnosed with breast cancer 90 days after starting work at VCU Massey Cancer Center. Doctors say cases are rising in young women. Canada’s Economy Starts to Buckle Under Trump’s ...