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The purpose of the brain tumor grading system is to indicate the tumor’s likely growth rate and how likely it is to spread within the brain.

While skin tags are not cancerous, it’s important keep an eye on any growths or changes in the skin.

Metastatic breast cancer is still an incurable disease, but it is highly treatable—and patients can live well for many, many years.

Immunotherapy can be very helpful for patients with few options, so scientists are working to understand why most tumors don’t respond to it

When administered by a professional, essential oils can be useful in helping with symptom management.

While you can’t change some factors, getting regular screenings and adjusting diet and lifestyle can reduce your risk of colorectal cancer.

As she goes through her own brain cancer treatment at age 24, Alex Berking is experiencing a new connection to her dad.

A patient who tests “MRD negative” after treatment for myeloma has less than one myeloma cell per million bone marrow cells.

Defined by location, affected population and time, cancer clusters can be formed by environmental factors or even random patterns.

“There’s nothing that we can’t face together. We’ll never walk alone.”

First tried in advanced melanoma, monoclonal antibodies have extended some patients’ survival as much as 10 years.

One of the most important things for family and friends to embrace when caregiving is to allow for their own self-care.

Overall, about 5 to 10 percent of breast cancer diagnoses and about 15 percent of ovarian cancer diagnoses are related to a BRCA mutation.

Researchers want to understand why some patients develop multiple myeloma while for others the disease progresses slowly, or not at all

In several studies, probiotics have been shown to help with long-term symptom management for cancer patients following treatment.

Even at a moderate level, exercise has been shown to clearly benefit cancer survivors and lower the odds of cancer recurrence.