Cancer

Life with prostate cancer has its challenges. Learn what you can do to make it easier.

Find out how support groups, counseling, and other steps can help you manage the swirl of emotions that you may experience when you learn that you have a relapse of follicular lymphoma.

For some people, cancer treatment stops working. When the risks and side effects outweigh the possible benefits, people may choose to stop cancer treatment.

A second opinion can be a key part of cancer treatment. Find out how fresh input can offer new approaches or confirm you’re on the right track, and when it’s smart to stay put.

Not long ago, chemotherapy was the only treatment for non-small -cell lung cancer. Now, doctors have many options. Sometimes, they combine them.

Some cancers survivors find they have lingering side effects long after treatment is over.

The Rush brothers, ages 5 years, 4 years, and 7 months, share something that most brothers don’t: bilateral retinoblastoma, a rare eye cancer. See how their mother, who was also born with the disease, handles treatments, daily life, and facing the unknown.

True bone cancer is uncommon, but cancer can also spread to bones from other parts of the body. Learn the difference and how bone cancer is diagnosed and treated.

Four small friends who met in the hospital while getting treated for cancer are back together for a group photo.

Learn about things you can do to cut your risk of cancer, such as screening tests, exercise, diet, and vaccines.

Learn what you need to do after a diagnosis of cancer, from getting a second opinion to finding a support group.

If you've just learned you have cancer, you probably want to tell those closest to you. But what about your employer?

Precision medicine isn’t the norm, but it holds promise for diseases like epilepsy, cystic fibrosis, and cancer. Learn how it could change treatment and clinical trials.

As more doctors use precision medicine, it could change your doctor visits. Find out how.

Precision medicine centers on two sets of facts about you: What your genes say and how your environment affects you.

In this new field, doctors use your genetic information to shape your medical treatment.

Biosensors track measurements in your body that can reveal a lot about your health for you and your doctor. Learn more about this cutting-edge field.

One day not too long from now, doctors will treat your ailment with medicines and therapies designed just for you. What does the future hold for this type of precision or personalized medicine?

Treatment with precision medicine requires you to share a lot of personal information. How do doctors and researchers plan to keep it safe?

In this new field, doctors use your genetic information to shape your medical treatment.

Find out how the right lifestyle -- including diet and exercise -- can help you feel better when you have neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

Find out about the treatments for neuroendocrine tumors, including surgery, medication, radiation, and hormone therapy.

See what symptoms neuroendocrine tumors can cause, and how to know if you have one.

Find out kinds of scans or blood tests doctors use to diagnose neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).

Does sugar cause cancer or make it grow faster? Some experts believe so, while others believe the real culprit is something that can happen if you have too much sugar.