As a cancer patient, access to innovative drugs can help extend your life — that is if you have health insurance, a new study finds.

New clinical trials are opening or progressing in several hard-to-treat cancers, including pediatric brain tumors, colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer and leukemia.

Prehabilitation and baseline physiological assessments before breast cancer surgery and treatment may enhance resilience to side effects, improve recovery and identify patients at an increased risk for developing lymphedema — a chronic and often debilitating condition that causes swelling in the affected arm and can arise weeks, months or even years after cancer intervention.

One of the most challenging aspects of conducting cancer clinical trials has always been the exclusion criteria, explains David Gerber, MD, a medical oncologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

In January 2025, then Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory with evidence detailing how alcohol consumption is linked to at least seven different types of cancer: breast, mouth, throat, voice box, esophagus, liver and colorectal cancer.

Melinda spent time caring for her mother who was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months before she died.

Earlier this year, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders outlawed anti-competitive practices in the pharmacy industry, and lobbyists are hopping mad about it.

The Department of Health and Human Services will renew funding to states for cancer prevention and tracking efforts, alleviating anxieties among local officials about the future of their work.

When I read that Ananda Lewis had died of breast cancer, I felt a deep, familiar heartbreak, followed by a sharper, more painful recognition: This didn’t have to happen.

President Trump's tax and spending bill sets in motion nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other health policy changes that could loom over the midterm elections.