Emily Webster is an academic at Durham University - five years ago she thought cancer might be about to destroy her life.

A grim pattern emerged when a New Jersey native began mapping out his mother's observations of her neighbors. Slowly, red X's ...

For American adults under 50, colorectal cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in America, but one Arkansas woman ...

Joshua Ray Walker is proud to have something to look back on. In January 2024, the Dallas singer was diagnosed with stage 3B colon cancer and spent the next few months undergoing treatment. While ...

Ballad Health has improved its oncology program by introducing two new advanced cancer surgical procedures: hyperthermic ...

Background: Survivors of cancer in adolescence and young adulthood are at increased risk for subsequent primary neoplasms, ...

TUPELO – If you’ve often heard the appendix is an organ in our bodies that has no job, that isn’t true. The appendix does, in fact, have a functional role. “The appendix is a safe house for good ...

Why do humans have an appendix? New research is reshaping our understanding of this overlooked organ and its antiquated role in our biology.

In 2019, Jennifer Lava had just moved to Washington, D.C., to start a new job and chapter. The New Jersey native, then 34, had a remarkably normal life and an unremarkable medical history. "I had been ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and there’s an important trend doctors want people to know about: colon cancer is being diagnosed more often in younger adults. For decades, colorectal ...

Standard adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer consists of a fluoropyrimidine-plus-oxaliplatin regimen. Whether the addition of atezolizumab (an anti–programmed death ligand 1 agent) to a ...