A doctor and public health expert explains why the new federal guidelines expanding cervical cancer screening to at-home ...

Self-swab HPV tests provide a simple way to catch early warning signs of cervical cancer in or away from a doctor's office.

The NCCN guidelines now include MammaPrint for identifying HR+/HER2- early-stage breast cancer patients who may benefit from ...

Remember how that Google neural net learned to tell the difference between dogs and cats? It's helping catch skin cancer now, thanks to some scientists at Stanford who trained it up and then loosed it ...

U.S. Dietary Guidelines advises "Drink less." It's good advice: research shows alcohol increases breast cancer risk, starting ...

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the biggest challenges in the field of oncology. Numbers of cases are increasing, and the latest personalized therapies and immunotherapy are not yet yielding results.

Categorizing patients with cancer by their disease stage can be an important tool when conducting administrative claims-based studies. As claims databases frequently do not capture this information, ...

Now the government’s recommendation is to “limit” drinking, without specifying safe amounts for men and women. The guidelines ...

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and their collaborators have developed an algorithm that identifies unique patterns caused by insertions and deletions in tumor DNA. Details of the ...

The predicted protein structure of FNBP1, one of the potential cancer-driving genes. The study predicts that inclusion of the exon (in yellow) helps cancer cells grow and spread. Researchers at the ...

Melanoma can spread to many tissues in your body including your brain. Treatment for melanoma that has spread to the brain usually focuses on prolonging life and reducing symptoms. Melanoma is the ...