Cancer - March 2017 Archives

A few weeks ago, Allison Hesse received an unusual request from a nurse on the oncology unit she manages at Mayo Clinic's Rochester campus Rochester ...

The Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program of Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus, Nemours Children’s Specialty Care, Jacksonville, and Wolfson Children’s Hospital has been awarded a ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, colorectal cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the U.S. and the second leading cause of death ...

Listen: Mayo Clinic Radio 3/11/17 March is National Nutrition Month, an education and information campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics to ...

A new study has found that rates of colon and rectal cancers have declined overall since the 1980s, but researchers also made a puzzling discovery. ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about half of all American adults have one or more preventable chronic diseases, and many are ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: How is thyroid cancer treated? Does it always require taking out the thyroid? When is iodine treatment used, and how does that ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Tumor sequencing is increasingly used to select treatment for patients with cancer, but its role in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer ...

Colon cancer: Treatment There are a number of treatments available for colon cancer, and the type of treatment your doctor recommends will depend largely on ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic scientists have identified a specific protein implicated in drug resistance, as well as a possible therapeutic tool. Their work appears ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about half of all American adults have one or more preventable chronic diseases, and many are ...

PHOENIX – Mayo Clinic researchers have found that an experimental drug, LCL161, stimulates the immune system, leading to tumor shrinkage in patients affected by multiple ...