Cancer - October 2019 Archives

Fall is here, and as the weather cools off, flu season heats up. After a particularly bad flu season in Australia, officials warn that could ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — A Mayo Clinic-led study involving 488 cardiac patients whose cases were followed for up to 12 years finds that microvascular endothelial dysfunction, a common early sign of cardiovascular ...

A diagnosis of breast cancer is never easy to hear. Thanks to early diagnosis and better treatments, more women are surviving the disease. Dr. Jordan ...

Fall is here, and as the weather cools off, flu season heats up. After a particularly bad flu season in Australia, officials warn that could ...

Tony DeGange never thought much about the bump on his head until his barber mentioned that it might be a problem. It was. The bump turned out to be a brain tumor. But his Mayo Clinic team successfully removed it, and now Tony's back to enjoying his retirement, bump-free.

ROCHESTER Minn. — The largest randomized trial in asymptomatic patients with smoldering multiple myeloma suggests that lenalidomide, a cancer drug, may delay the onset of ...

Liver cancerOctober is Liver Cancer Awareness Month, which makes it a good time to brush up on the facts and signs of this disease. Most ...

Your cancer is back, and so are the shock and fear that came with your first diagnosis. The uncertainties are back, too, and you wonder ...

Breast cancer surgery is a key component of breast cancer treatment that involves removing the cancer with an operation. The surgery may be used alone ...

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among American women. Nearly 250,000 are diagnosed with the disease in the U.S. every year, according to ...

Around 250,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the U.S. every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Even as cancer treatments have become ...

When Conner O'Brien was faced with daunting cancer treatment options that carried long-term side effects, his doctors referred him to Mayo Clinic. Today, because of the less-invasive and targeted treatments he was offered at Mayo, Conner's tumor is gone, and his quality of life is excellent.