#cancer risk

Screening for precancerous conditions is a routine part of medical exams, especially as people age.

Black women face additional burdens along their risk-management journey, researchers say.

The benefits? Risk is assessed more rapidly and at a cheaper cost.

However, the study showed that psychological distress was not a strong predictor of cancer.

Quitting smoking may not be easy, but it is possible.

Q&A: Riki Peters, PhD, MPH, on what this large genome-wide association study means for patients and the public

“It’s important to question intuitions and observational epidemiology studies, and fund large-scale trials,” said NCI’s Barry Kramer,...

Here’s the lowdown on Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder, talc, asbestos and ovarian cancer.

Shawne Jabonero Lopes, DACM, LAc, shares her family’s liver health story.

Lung, colorectal and liver cancer deaths were significantly higher among third-generation U.S.-born Latinos.

Up to 20 percent of those who die of lung cancer have never puffed on cigarettes.

A study published in Nature Immunology may help explain why extra weight increases the risk for certain types of cancer.

Regardless of race, ethnicity or nationality, men are more likely than women to get cancer.

Being obese was linked to a fourfold increase in pancreatic cancer risk.

We’re interested in assessing how diet affects health—but in the context of the what, where, when, why, and how we eat.

The taller you are, the greater your risk of cancer may be, according to a new study.