Start your day with a light meal, unless your doctor has said otherwise. Be sure to dress comfortably and wear something that ...

Cancers found on the lip are usually treated with surgery. The doctor performing the surgery will try to remove all the cancer on the lip and determine whether it has spread to nearby lymph nodes.

During a routine mammogram, doctors found something unusual in Patty Schone’s left breast. But the real danger was actually ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which was co-created by the American Cancer Society (ACS) in 1985. It began as a week-long campaign to educate women about ...

Females between 40 and 44 may start getting a mammorgram every year. Females 55 and older may get a mammogram every other year, or they can continue getting one every year. Starting at age 40 and ...

HPV can be passed from one person to another by intimate skin-to-skin contact. It’s not spread through blood or body fluids. HPV can be spread to someone else even when an infected person has no signs ...

Precancerous cells, also called premalignant cells, are abnormal cells that have changes in how they look or grow. The cells are not cancer, but they show changes that raise the risk of turning into ...

A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. It happens when the body’s normal process of making and replacing cells doesn’t work as it should. When a neoplasm forms into an abnormal growth, ...

If you are diagnosed with esophageal (esophagus) cancer, doctors will try to figure out whether it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a cancer describes how ...

After mesothelioma is diagnosed, the next step is to try to figure out if it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a cancer describes how much cancer is in the ...

Finding cancer early, when it's small and hasn't spread, often allows for more treatment options. Some early cancers may have signs and symptoms that can be noticed, but that's not always the case.

Survival rates can give you an idea of what percentage of people with the same type and stage of cancer are still alive a certain amount of time (usually 5 years) after they were diagnosed. They can’t ...