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Almost 3 million children in the United States have a parent who is living with or has survived cancer.A first-of-its-kind initiative between three Texas…
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For 40 years, people have been able to call a service funded by the National Cancer Institute to get information about cancer treatments. Doctors say it's still useful even in the age of Twitter.
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Colon cancer claims 50,000 American lives each year, second only to lung cancer.The screening test called the colonoscopy is more invasive and…
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Skin cancer is extremely common, affecting more people than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined. The majority of skin cancers are easily…
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A vaccine exists to protect young people against the most common sexually transmitted disease in the U.S. Yet most parents aren’t getting their children…
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Some San Antonio researchers are developing a new cancer treatment that may be less debilitating than chemo and other therapies. It could also be…
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For a long time, a diagnosis of colon cancer was a near death sentence. In the past 15 years both the mortality rate as well as the incidence of colon…
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Jimmy Carter seems to have gotten the perfect drug to treat his cancer. But scientists need to understand a lot more about tumors before personalized cancer treatments are available for everyone.
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The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium is this week here in San Antonio. The meeting of some of the nations foremost authorities on breast cancer…
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When is the right time to start getting screened for prostate cancer, and what are the right tests?Some questions seem so simple, but can elicit a number…