Linda never considered herself a heavy smoker. She smoked in her 20s when it was popular and all her friends were doing it, but she gave up the habit years ago.

Scientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how pancreatic cancer cells thrive in the lungs or liver, environments that are as distinct to cells as the ocean and desert are to animals.

A group of 97 patients had longstanding multiple myeloma, a common blood cancer that doctors consider incurable, and faced a certain, and extremely painful, death within about a year.

“What are these nodules I’m feeling in my neck?” I asked almost 16 years ago.

Marital status significantly impacts survival rates for patients with colorectal cancer, according to a new study co-authored by a Fox Chase Cancer Center researcher that was presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

Eating food that lowers inflammation in the body may help people with advanced colon cancer survive longer, according to research presented at a meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.

A problem-solving skills training intervention reduced symptoms of stress and anxiety compared with usual care for young adults with cancer, according to results of a randomized trial presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

The Turquoise Takeover that lit up area buildings in New Jersey from May 5 through 11 shined a spotlight on lung-cancer awareness.

Exercise may significantly reduce the risk of colon cancer returning in patients after treatment, a new study has found.