A new definition of rectal cancer in the Netherlands prompted reclassification of cancer as sigmoid tumors, which could lead to better treatment. Rectal and sigmoidal tumors have been hard to ...

A group of experts advising the nation’s premier cancer-research institution has recommended changing the very definition of cancer and eliminating the word entirely from some common diagnoses as part ...

Medical researchers use knockout cells to study how genes function and how genes can be used for medical treatments. For example, a knockout cell line for liver cancer might turn off a gene linked ...

Defining cure in stage II and III colon cancer has been challenging, and has never been systematically studied. In an analysis of 15 randomized trials, colon cancer relapse risk fell to 0.5% by year 6 ...

Based on patterns of recurrence-free survival (RFS) over time in some studies, the researchers determined that 5-year RFS may be a suitable surrogate for measuring cure. In considering outcomes for ...

The thyroid is a gland in the neck that creates hormones that help regulate bodily functions such as metabolism and heart rate. Thyroid cancer is an uncommon form of cancer that develops in the ...

Early adult-onset cancer is on the rise and it has implications for life insurance underwriting. What you need to know.

Mouth cancer is a type of head and neck cancer, and it often comes under the category of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. Oral cancer accounts for roughly 3% of all cancer diagnoses in the United States ...

Seemingly every medical condition has myths surrounding it. Cancer is no exception. One such myth is that the fungus Candida causes cancer or that cancer cells are actually a form of fungus. Research ...

Valarie Traynham shares what survivorship means to her, and how the definition has evolved after her diagnosis, during National Cancer Survivors Month. Survivorship can mean something different to ...