Cancer News & Features

Monsanto, now owned by pharmaceutical company Bayer, faces more than 9,000 Roundup-related lawsuits in the United States, The Guardian reported.

A previous study linked hot tea with esophageal cancer, but this new one is the first to pinpoint a specific temperature, according to the researchers.

Johnson & Johnson says its products do not contain asbestos, and said it will appeal Wednesday's jury decision.

Experts said the findings offer more support for a screening test that has long been a recommended option -- but not often performed in the United States.         Instead, most Americans are screened for colon cancer by colonoscopy -- an invasive test that examines the colon. However, many other countries favor a yearly stool test.

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.

Despite what should have been a very restrictive distribution system, as many as half of the patients receiving a specific form of fentanyl did not meet the requirements to get it, researchers said

The number of black lives lost to cancer in the United States is falling, and at a faster rate than observed among white people. That's helping to close a decades-long "race gap" in cancer deaths.

Study findings contradict previous research suggesting that antiviral drugs might increase these patients' risk of liver cancer recurrence.

Rutgers University researchers found that diagnoses of these cancers increased 40 percent in a group of World Trade Center workers and volunteers over a four-year period.

Because it often doesn't cause obvious early symptoms, pancreatic cancer is difficult to diagnose. In many cases, the cancer is at an advanced stage by the time it's discovered. Only 8.5 percent of patients survive past five years.

The findings suggest screening for hepatitis B and C may be appropriate in community cancer clinics.

Most doctors surveyed said they were comfortable treating lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender patients, but half or fewer felt confident in their knowledge of these patients' health needs.

WebMD’s 2018 Health Heroes have left their mark on the fight against cancer in ways large and small.

A study of about 240,000 cancer patients in Australia from 2006 to 2015 found that any type of cancer was associated with a 40 percent increased risk of developing shingles, compared with not having cancer.

Between 1991 and 2016, deaths from cancer dropped 27 percent. In real numbers, that's almost 2.6 million fewer cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

Among nearly 4.6 million patients, almost 1,600 died by suicide within a year of their diagnosis, researchers found, which is a 2.5 times greater risk than what's seen in the general population.

A nearly twofold difference exists between U.S. states with the highest and lowest proportion of obesity-related cancers, American Cancer Society researchers have found.

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The study found that in 2015, about 4 million deaths were attributable to excess body weight.

The team at the University of Queensland in Australia created the test after discovering that cancer forms a unique DNA structure when placed in water, CNN reported.

When exposed to radio frequency radiation like that used in 2G and 3G cellphones, male rats developed heart tumors, a government report says. But critics believe the exposures in the study can’t be directly compared with humans.

In a survey for the nation’s cancer doctors, 39 percent of respondents said they believe cancer can be cured using just alternative therapies, such as enzyme and oxygen therapy, diet, vitamins and minerals.

The claims about this exotic plant’s medicinal benefits have been “way oversold."

Eating more organically grown foods was linked to a 34 percent reduced risk of postmenopausal breast cancer, a 76 percent decreased risk for all lymphomas and an 86 percent reduced risk for non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a recent study found.