Many of us probably pay little attention to the “butterfly” in our throats. But the thyroid gland – shaped like a monarch butterfly – is essential.

A new protocol at New Jersey’s Hackensack University Medical Center is in the process of radically altering the recovery process for patients with breast cancer who undergo surgery.

For years, federal policymakers have tweaked lung cancer screening guidelines as if the barrier to saving lives is a math problem.

Receiving a cancer diagnosis is a life-altering event. For patients diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the bladder, understanding the specific nature of this disease is the first step toward navigating treatment.

Progress in cutting the global toll of cancer remains painfully slow, but a new blood test has sparked unusual levels of hope.

More Americans in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are getting diagnosed with cancer. These are people juggling careers, young families, and a brutal economy.

The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) filed an amicus curiae brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in AbbVie Inc. et al. v. Frey, urging the court to allow essential steps to curb rampant abuse in the 340B Drug Pricing Program.

Among asymptomatic adults who underwent lung cancer screening, risks for all-cause, COPD and cardiovascular disease mortality were heightened if emphysema was found during screening, according to results published in Radiology.

In recognition of Lung Cancer Awareness Month, observed each November, CURE spoke with Dr. Daniel J. Boffa, professor and division chief of Thoracic Surgery at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

Researchers have developed nasal drops that travel along the nerves of the nose into the central nervous system to fight the deadliest brain cancer.