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Multi-Cancer Early Detection (MCED) Tests: What You Need to Know
Cancer death rates dropped by 34% from 1991 to 2023. Nevertheless, more than 626,000 people in the United States will die from the disease in...
Understanding Melanoma: Symptoms, Risks, Treatment, and Prevention
Everyone loves getting out in the sunshine—after all, the sun brightens our mood and transforms skin made pallid by gloomy winter months into what is...
Rethinking Long-Term Hormone Therapy for Prostate Cancer
For decades, androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT, or hormone therapy) has been a cornerstone of treatment for men with advanced metastatic prostate cancer and also for many...
A New Perspective After Prostatectomy
Radical prostatectomy is a surgical procedure usually performed on men who develop prostate cancer in their 60s or 70s. Adam Borland, PsyD, was 47 years...
Coping with a Cancer Diagnosis
If you’ve just received upsetting diagnosis news—perhaps cancer, an autoimmune disease or another frightening health condition—it’s perfectly normal to cycle through shock, anxiety, anger and...
Pancreatic Cancer
It’s never easy to hear you have cancer, but a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer can be especially daunting. Once diagnosed with the disease, only about...
CAR T Cells: A Living Drug to Fight Cancer
CAR T cells are normal white blood cells that have been genetically engineered in a laboratory to make them more effective cancer fighters. Using your...
Lung Cancer in Nonsmokers
Due to a long-lasting effort to reduce smoking in developed countries, rates of tobacco smoking have continued to drop for decades. It is now unusual...
How COVID Could Change Cancer Treatment
During the COVID-19 pandemic, oncologists noticed something strange. Some people with cancer who developed severe COVID infections showed an unexpected side effect: Their cancer appeared...
The State of Liquid Biopsy
When liquid biopsy was first introduced in 2010, it was hailed as a revolutionary way to guide cancer treatment. Now, 14 years later, liquid biopsy...
Good News About Breast Cancer
The National Cancer Institute recently reported that even though the number of women diagnosed with breast cancer has been going up since 2010, the number...
