Tanning bed use before age 30 bumps cancer rates 75 percent and cancer experts have moved tanning beds and ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer risk category.

Even when doctors have successfully removed a breast cancer, there is a chance the cancer will recur. John Stewart, IV, M.D., Surgical Oncologist with Wake Forest University School of Medicine, says some factors associated with a higher risk of recurrence include: positive lymph nodes, a high grade tumor or estrogen receptor negative tumors.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to investigate whether an Annapolis woman’s cure from cancer was a miracle, a possible step toward sainthood for a 19th-century priest.

The Archdiocese of Baltimore plans to investigate whether an Annapolis woman’s cure from cancer was a miracle, a possible step toward sainthood for a 19th-century priest.

In 1990, Mama’s Kitchen in San Diego started delivering free meals to aids patients and has since expanded to include other critical diseases like cancer and in the past two decades it adds up to almost five million meals.

Women who use hormone therapy after menopause may be at a higher risk of ovarian cancer, and the risk remains elevated for up to two years after women stop taking estrogen, a new study says.

Two recent studies suggest a new drug kills cancerous tumors in patients genetically predisposed to developing cancer.

Each year, thousands of people with different forms of cancer turn to the National Bone Marrow Registry for transplants. Seven million people are listed on the registry, but a very small percentage of them are from minority groups.

Weight-loss surgery can sometimes reverse type 2 diabetes and ease other obesity-related conditions. Now, new research suggests that obese women who undergo bariatric surgery experience a 42 percent drop in their cancer risk.

A new study finds that one out of 14 times, doctors are failing to tell their patients about abnormal cancer screening results.  The findings are published in Archives of Internal Medicine.

Healthy food could help you lose weight and fight cancer. That is the premise behind a free cooking class being offered near Dallas, Texas by Katherine Lawrence.

Often called one of the best college basketball players of all time, Wayman Tisdale played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 12 years.  In February 2007, Tisdale learned of a cancerous cyst below his knee after falling down steps and breaking his right leg. After 2 years of cancer treatment, he died May 15, 2009

Lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in American adults and the leading cause of cancer death. This year, the American Cancer Society estimates 219,449 new cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. Nearly 159,400 men and women will die of the disease. There are two main types of lung cancer – small cell and non-small cell. Roughly 85 to 90 percent of cases are non-small cell lung cancer

Ten years and $2.5 billion in research have found no cancer cures from alternative medicine, but these mostly unproven treatments are becoming mainstream with more than a third of all American patients using them.

Hundreds gathered at the Charleston Elks Lodge on Cosgrove Avenue to celebrate surviving cancer and raise awareness about the deadly disease.