When Janice Johnson went to the hospital for what she thought was food poisoning, she had no idea it would lead to a cancer diagnosis in her 40s. Despite her immediate fear, Janice refused to accept a ...

The Medal of Honor is presented to individuals whose research has fundamentally advanced cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.

But they share a common story – one familiar to many Black girls interested in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM). They face doubts, discouraging comments, and pressure to ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. See how American Cancer Society researchers are helping put an end to this disease. American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers study the most effective ways ...

Early pancreatic cancers often do not cause any signs or symptoms. By the time they do cause symptoms, they have often grown very large or already spread outside the pancreas. People with pancreatic ...

Estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2020 (In 2020, there will be an estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 606,520 cancer deaths in the United States.) Current cancer ...

Cancer care does not end when you finish treatment. You will continue to see your health care team for follow-up care. They will watch for signs of the cancer coming back, manage any side effects from ...

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is generally divided into main 2 types, based on whether it starts in B lymphocytes (B cells) or T lymphocytes (T cells). There are many different types of T-cell lymphomas, ...

To understand bile duct cancer, it helps to know about the bile ducts and what they normally do. Bile is a fluid made in your liver and stored in your gallbladder. Your bile ducts are a series of thin ...

Costochondritis is not cancer, but its symptoms can resemble those of some types of cancer. It can also develop after certain ...

HPV can be passed from one person to another by intimate skin-to-skin contact. It’s not spread through blood or body fluids. HPV can be spread to someone else even when an infected person has no signs ...

A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. It happens when the body’s normal process of making and replacing cells doesn’t work as it should. When a neoplasm forms into an abnormal growth, ...