Cancer - September 2020 Archives

It seems nearly every week that there's a new claim on the internet about what causes cancer. Many of these claims may cause you to ...

For John Jolly, retirement means enjoying time with his wife, gardening and walking 10,000 steps daily. But after chemotherapy to treat bladder cancer in 2018, ...

Cancer diagnoses have decreased since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to a recent study in JAMA. "We can speculate that putting off routine screening tests means ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My father has been a heavy smoker for most of his life. He was diagnosed with lung cancer recently. He underwent surgery and ...

Hereditary BRCA-related breast and ovarian cancer, Lynch syndrome and familial hypercholesterolemia are estimated to be relatively prevalent in the general population but poorly found using traditional risk screening. In a typical medical practice, ...

Gynecologic cancers start in a woman’s reproductive organs. The five main types are cervical, endometrial, ovarian, vaginal and vulvar cancer. Every five minutes, a woman is diagnosed ...