Cancer - April 2017 Archives

The American Society of Clinical Oncology released the first global HPV vaccination guidelines to prevent cervical cancer. Mayo Clinic oncologist Dr. Gerardo Colon-Otero says these new guidelines ...

To the delight of everyone who knows 3-year-old Rayna Speary, her head is perfectly round and smooth and average size. Given that the youngster was diagnosed and treated for an extremely rare brain tumor that caused her head to balloon in size as a 4-month-old, and that she underwent a dramatic surgery at Mayo Clinic to remove a substantial growth that occupied nearly half of her brain space, a perfect aesthetic of her head was not guaranteed.

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic researchers have refined a panel of genes they believe play a role in the development of breast cancer. The researchers say ...

Alternative treatments for cancer symptom relief Alternative cancer treatments may not play a direct role in curing your cancer, but they may help you cope ...

Men 55 to 69 should talk with their health care provider about prostate-specific antigen (PSA)–based screening for prostate cancer. That's according to new recommendations from ...

For more than 60 years, Robert Kyle, M.D., has catalogued patient histories, archived blood samples and observed a vast number of people with plasma ...

Using imagery to meditate can help with the stress of cancer Guided imagery — using words and music to imagine a place of peace and ...

Living donor transplant There are about 6,000 organ transplants from living donors in the U.S. each year. Kidney and liver are the most common types ...

Immunotherapy offers new drugs and drug delivery to help the body’s “janitor” with its job. The response of the immune system to cancer is ...

In a new study by Mayo Clinic and the molecular diagnostics company Exact Sciences, a blood-based cancer test has shown high accuracy for detecting lung cancer ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: After a recent mammogram, my doctor suggested an additional test. She recommended molecular breast imaging, but, when I got to the appointment, ...