To lower the risk of cancer, it's essential to adopt a healthy lifestyle. This includes not using tobacco products, maintaining a healthy weight, engaging in regular physical activity, eating a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, limiting alcohol consumption, and protecting yourself from excessive sun exposure.

Since its peak in 1991, the cancer death rate has dropped 34%, averting an estimated 4.5 million deaths due, in part, to earlier detection of the most common types of cancer.

A survivorship program at a community health system is utilizing survivorship standards as a roadmap for collaboration across a multidisciplinary approach, as an expert illustrated.

“Our food choices can have a positive and negative impact on our health, including contributing to chronic diseases,” Mariah K. Jackson, PhD, RDN, LMNT, assistant professor in the medical nutrition program in the College of Allied Health Professions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, told Healio.

According to the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), there is a critical need for increased and equitable access to biomarker testing to advance personalized cancer care and improve patient outcomes.1

These days, the same big health care conglomerate could own your PBM, insurer, pharmacy and even your doctor’s office. Middlemen now control what medicines you can get, what you pay at the pharmacy counter, what pharmacy you can you use and what hoops you must jump through to get the medicine your doctor prescribed.

In the earliest ads, Terrie Hall wears a scarf around her throat to cover the artificial voice box that helps her speak.

Although testicular cancer is a rare, the disease makes up the most common malignancy in men aged 15 to 44, according to the Testicular Cancer Awareness Foundation, and is often found through early detection prompted by noticeable signs such as lumps, swelling or tenderness.

As more patients report using cannabis in a state where medical marijuana is legal, researchers across several disciplines at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences are uncovering insight into the effects of cannabis use on sedation and cancer symptoms.

Oncologist Mark Lewis has never had much of a poker face. When he walked into his cancer patient’s visit in 2022, he was wearing a big smile: The nodules in his patient’s lungs, he saw in the radiology report, were shrinking in response to treatment.