During his presidency, Joe Biden had directed Medicare to look at ways to lower drug costs, including whether or not to impose a two dollar monthly out of pocket cap on certain generic drugs.

About 150,000 Americans are diagnosed annually with colorectal cancer, which occurs when cells in the colon or rectum grow out of control.

In 2022, around 16% of the 20 million people with cancer worldwide were under 50.

An investigational blood-based test identified nearly 80% of individuals who had colorectal cancer, according to results of a large prospective trial presented at ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

You’ve likely heard the adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Respectfully, there’s nothing further than the truth. It’s never too late to learn a new skill, take up a new hobby or even completely reinvent yourself.

Rising diagnoses of certain cancers in people under 50 predate the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines by decades, undermining claims made in a U.S. broadcast that the inoculations have caused a sharp increase of “turbo cancer” in younger age groups.

Imagine being diagnosed with the same disease that took away both of your parents.

Until five years ago, Deltra James led a very different life. She was 33, married, and happily homeschooling her five daughters in their three-bedroom home in Waterbury, Conn.

In 2022, President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden reignited the Cancer Moonshot and set two bold but achievable goals—to cut the cancer death rate by at least half by 2047, preventing more than four million cancer deaths, and to improve the experience of people living with and surviving cancer.

More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American Cancer Society reported on Thursday.