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A group at CU Cancer Center is working to understand why cancer risk increases as people get older.

People living with cancer are at higher risk for severe illness and death due to COVID-19.

Leading advocacy groups suggest policy and practice changes to improve racial equality in access to high quality cancer care.

In this Q&A, Dr. Pergam discusses some of the questions people with cancer and cancer survivors have about COVID-19 vaccines.

People living with chronic illnesses are coming up with ingenious coping mechanisms in the face of COVID-19.

Cancer, heart disease and diabetes are just some underlying medical conditions associated with an increased risk of severe COVID-19 illness.

Data show that 1 in 5 men and women worldwide develop cancer during their lifetime, and 1 in 8 men and 1 in 11 women die from the disease.

My fourth annual scan after testicular cancer shows good news again.

The coronavirus vaccines are safe and should be effective even for people with advanced cancer.

Patients are told not to throw in the towel. But when we frame cancer survivorship by a relentless battle, we award the wrong priorities.

I have never felt more afraid, paranoid, heartbroken, horrified and filled with a level 4 kind of rage than I did in 2020.

First Lady Jill Biden visited a Whitman-Walker clinic to discuss health care, including cancer prevention, COVID-19 and broadband.

I wrote this poem the night before my recent scans. I love to process things by writing and (sometimes) sharing.

In the midst of his testicular cancer journey, Anthony Mastrogiulio found his cancer family.

John-Mark Mallory, executive director of the MMF, shares his thoughts on surviving the loss of his brother to testicular cancer.

Care supporters rarely get acknowledged, yet my wife, Genevieve, is central to why I’m still alive. My journey is as much hers as mine.