Cancer - July 2019 Archives

Making long-term plans was not always part of Tanis Milicevic's daily routine. Milicevic was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma more than a decade ago. But the past year ...

Cigarette smoking has fallen to its lowest point in recorded history, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But there’s a new problem ...

Chest surgery, also known as  thoracic surgery, formerly involved "cracking open the chest," which requires a large incision, cutting through muscles, and a crank to spread ...

Lung cancer screening  Lung cancer screening is a process that's used to detect the presence of lung cancer in otherwise healthy people with a high ...

Chest surgery, also known as  thoracic surgery, formerly involved "cracking open the chest," which requires a large incision, cutting through muscles, and a crank to spread ...

There are many accolades to describe the importance of the 5th District Eagles Cancer Telethon. For starters, it’s the longest locally run telethon in the ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My doctor suggested I get a yearly skin check by a dermatologist to check for melanoma. Why is this necessary? I am ...

Last December, Pat Shannon announced to his wife and to his Mayo oncologist that he was going to take a 10,000-mile journey on his motorcycle, ...

Chest surgery, also known as thoracic surgery, formerly involved "cracking open the chest," which requires a large incision, cutting through muscles, and a crank to ...

A recent Mayo Clinic study focused on newly diagnosed lung cancer patients to find out how many of them would have been identified by screening ...

HPV infection and cancer in men  While the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV) is linked to cervical cancer in women, it can cause cancer in ...

Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio: 7/13/19 When one of the heart's natural pumps isn’t working well, a ventricular assist device can be used to increase the amount of blood ...