Cancer - January 2019 Archives

Diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, Kurt Jacobson has received state-of-the-art care from Mayo Clinic without needing to travel far from his home in northern Wisconsin.

Vitamin C as a cancer treatment  Researchers have been studying the effect of vitamin C on cancer for decades. Now they're looking into whether the ...

Tumors of the musculoskeletal system can originate in bone or soft tissues, such as muscle and cartilage. Both benign and malignant tumors can arise from ...

John McKee felt blessed. As he embarked on retirement, he wanted to give back and realized there was no better way than to move closer ...

THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES Understanding pain You may know what it's like to feel pain. What you might not be aware of is the science ...

Tumors of the musculoskeletal system can originate in bone or soft tissues, such as muscle and cartilage. Both benign and malignant tumors can arise from ...

Exercise and cancer If you're living with cancer, working out may be the last thing on your mind. But exercise can improve your level of ...

ROCHESTER Minn. — Rose geranium oil may help to ease the symptoms of nasal vestibulitis, a common and painful nasal condition linked to cancer drug ...

It was 1959. Nancy Carroll, then 2 years old, posed for the camera. Smiles were few. The photo shoot had commenced because her parents ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A family friend was recently diagnosed with emphysema, but he never smoked and was told that his condition was caused by alpha-1. What ...

Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 1/12/19 On the Mayo Clinic Radio podcast, Dr. Jennifer Martinez-Thompson, a Mayo Clinic neurologist, discusses diagnosis and treatment options for amyotrophic ...

Ovarian cancer risk after hysterectomy  If you've had a hysterectomy, your risk of developing ovarian cancer or primary peritoneal cancer, a type of cancer that acts ...