A regimen using minimal-intensity radiation therapy before bone marrow or stem cell transplantation may work for older patients who cannot tolerate stronger pretransplant treatment.
Compared with the general population, recipients of a kidney, liver, heart, or lung transplant have twice as great a risk for diverse infection-related and unrelated cancers.
Vaginal self-sampling for human papillomavirus testing demonstrated a relatively low but acceptable positive predictive value in a large trial of women in underserved areas of Mexico.
Once you receive a cancer diagnosis, you may worry about how to tell your loved ones. This fact sheet offers tips on how to communicate what is happening to your children.
Postmenopausal women who have gained weight in adulthood are at greater risk of developing endometrial cancer than are women who maintain a stable weight, indicates a recent study.
An emerging application known as magnetic relaxometry demonstrated 100 times greater sensitivity than mammography imaging in identifying breast tumors.
A bedside assessment picked up symptoms and impairments that standard oncology assessments do not routinely identify in a group of older persons with acute myelogenous leukemia.
A review published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found that current cancer screening methods and other procedures contribute to substantial overdiagnosis.
