A Medicare proposal to test new ways of paying for chemotherapy and other drugs given in a doctor's office has sparked a furious battle, and cancer doctors are demanding that the Obama administration scrap the experiment. The vehement reaction is ...

A promising new imaging technique could show doctors within days whether or not their cancer medication is working, and it has been tested on a cancer patient in the UK for the first time. Scientists at Addenbrooke's Hospital, part of Cambridge ...

Patients treated at specialty cancer hospitals have a 10 percent lower chance of dying in the first year than those who receive care at community hospitals, according to a study of Medicare claims and other data published in the Journal of the American ...

Testing experimental cancer drugs in mouse models with patient-derived tumors could reduce the high failure rate of drugs in early clinical trials, according to a report from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists performed in collaboration with ...

Hormone therapy for prostate cancer may increase the risk for depression, a new analysis has found. Hormone therapy, or androgen deprivation therapy, a widely used prostate cancer treatment, aims to reduce levels of testosterone and other male hormones ...

The study, jointly carried out by a number of institutions including the National Cancer Center, the Riken research institute and the University of Tokyo, hopes to contribute to the development of new diagnostic methods and personalized drug therapies.

DALLAS - Nearly 15 percent of colorectal cancers are diagnosed in people under age 50, suggesting it might be beneficial to begin regular screenings and colonoscopy exams at 40.

After Wanda Cwiecek began treatment for multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood, she had trouble sleeping and felt emotionally drained.

The result is drug resistance. Researchers have now found a way to map those alternate routes by studying individual cancer cells, suggesting approaches for developing more effective combination therapies. The results are published April 11 in Cancer Cell.

The family was sent to the Jimmy Everest Center for Cancer where Ashlyn was quickly diagnosed with Wilm's Tumor, a rare type of childhood cancer that usually affects only the kidneys - in Ashlyn's case, had spread throughout her body. Dr. William Meyer ...

A 6-year-old girl with a rare form of cancer died over the weekend, days after Chicago's top cop honored her wish to be a police officer by visiting her home and presenting her with a badge, a uniform and medal of valor.

A 5-year-old Jacksonville boy fighting cancer came within two days of not having the medication he needs to keep winning his battle with leukemia because of changes made by his family's insurance provider.

"This is when she should have been at the playground, and so often, siblings of cancer patients are robbed of a time when they can just be kids," Geri said.

People aged 50 to 69 years who have a 10% or greater 10-year risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and who do not have higher risk for bleeding should consider taking low-dose aspirin to help prevent CVD and colorectal cancer, according to final ...

His doctor had prescribed the cancer drug Gleevec, but Steiner's insurance refused to cover its $3,500 monthly cost. Steiner, a warehouse manager for a publisher of Bible-themed literature, and his wife, Brenda, a part-time nurse, made just $30,000 a year.

A Chester doctor has founded a nonprofit dedicated to preventing inherited cancers, instead of simply treating them after a diagnosis, which he hopes may be the first step in eliminating the disease all together.

He was told he had Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, a cancer in the back of his nose, but medics soon made the discovery it had spread into his blood, halving his survival rate to three years.