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1. You may have problems with your prostate that aren’t cancer.
Focus on including foods high in calories, protein, and nutrients into your loved one’s diet when they are experiencing ...
As Relay For Life celebrates 40 years of impact, Dee Dee sees opportunity for continued growth. She believes in evolving the ...
Cancer Care Toolkit It can be hard to keep track of all the information you get about your cancer diagnosis and treatment. But keeping everything organized can help you feel less stressed and more ...
Biopsy samples of cells or body tissues can be taken from almost any part of the body and used to help diagnose cancer. In fact, cancer is almost always diagnosed through a biopsy. How the samples are ...
Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), also known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia, can cause many different signs and symptoms. Most of these happen in all kinds of ALL, but some are more common with ...
Nuclear medicine scans ( also known as nuclear imaging, radionuclide imaging, and nuclear scans) can help doctors find tumors and see how much the cancer has spread in the body (called the cancer’s ...
Several risk factors can affect a person’s chance of getting non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and some of these are linked only to certain types of lymphoma. Learn more.
Doctors use imaging tests to take pictures of the inside of your body. Imaging tests can be used to look for cancer, find out how far it has spread, and to help see if cancer treatment is working.
Breast cancer cells taken out during a biopsy or surgery are tested to see if they have certain proteins that are estrogen or progesterone receptors. If your breast cancer cells have these receptors ...
Most childhood cancers are caused by DNA changes (mutations) that happen early in the child’s life, sometimes even before birth. Because of this, there are not many known risk factors or ways to ...
Cancers in children are often hard to recognize. Learn the signs and symptoms of childhood cancer and how it's diagnosed.