If you are diagnosed with thyroid cancer, doctors will try to figure out whether it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a cancer describes how much cancer is ...

Every person can take two actions to greatly reduce their risk of developing and dying from the most common types of cancer in the United States: Make efforts to reduce those harmful everyday habits ...

Colorectal cancer might not cause symptoms right away, but if it does, it may cause one or more of these symptoms. Colorectal cancers can often bleed into the digestive tract. Sometimes the blood can ...

“Discarding unnecessary medication is really important. Exposure or accidental ingestion are concerns, especially if you have ...

Over the last 30 years, the risk of dying from cancer has steadily declined, sparing some 4 million lives in the United States. This downward trend can partially be explained by big wins in smoking ...

The American Cancer Society (ACS) is significantly evolving the guideline about who is considered to have a high risk for developing lung cancer and should get screened for it each year with a ...

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, ...

If your doctor has recommended a biopsy to see whether you have cancer, you probably have a lot of questions. You may even be wondering can cancer spread if you do a biopsy? The short answer to this ...

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, was signed into law on March 23, 2010, it was a historic moment — in fact, it was the biggest change to US health care since ...

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 ...

Precancerous cells, also called premalignant cells, are abnormal cells that have changes in how they look or grow. The cells are not cancer, but they show changes that raise the risk of turning into ...

Most people around the world have had the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) at some point in their lives. It usually causes mild or no symptoms, so people might not even know they have it. But it can sometimes ...