Cancer - May 2018 Archives

The American Cancer Society has announced updated guidelines as to when most folks should begin being screened for colon and rectal cancer. Colon and ...

On Miranda Mead's 16th birthday she failed her driving test. Although she had been looking forward to getting her license ...

Melanoma, the skin cancer often associated with sun exposure, is on the rise and has no reliable cure. May is National Melanoma and Skin ...

Bladder cancer  Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers, affecting approximately 68,000 adults in the U.S. each year. Bladder cancer occurs more frequently ...

Many teenagers, and sometimes their parents, think melanoma won't happen to people under 20. So skin cancer cases in young people aren't detected as early as ...

Hollis Youngner, 37, has late-stage cancer, but it does not define her. Her greatest inspiration is her daughter, Hayes, but Hollis has become an ...

Steve Lyon wanted to do something to raise awareness about the melanoma after his diagnosis. So the longtime conductor composed an original piece of music ...

A mountain bike accident triggered a chain of events that led Joel Pankow to seek treatment at Mayo Clinic for a kidney tumor he believed to be cancer. To his great relief, Joel’s care team found he didn't have cancer after all. Here Joel shares his Mayo Clinic experience in his own words.

Slideshow: Identifying melanoma  May is Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month, which makes it a good time to learn more about melanoma, the most serious ...

John Murphy had grown accustomed to seeing the age spot on his forehead. He even had a dermatologist look at it in the past. So ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. – Mayo Clinic researchers have discovered that a molecular communication pathway – thought to be defective in cancer – is a key player ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — In a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Mayo Clinic researchers identified that an FDA drug approved for ...