Penelope Milford, who scored an Oscar nomination for Coming Home, played the school counselor in Heathers, appeared on Broadway and had roles in Endless Love and other films, has died. She was 77. Her ...

Michaela Del Barrio had always known that her family history of breast cancer meant she had a higher risk than most of being diagnosed with the disease. In her 20s, doctors had told her she was too ...

Ignore this red flag, and it could come back to bite you in the rear. A new study has identified the “strongest predictor of colorectal cancer” in adults under 50 — increasing the odds of a diagnosis ...

What is the NFL's Crucial Catch program? According to American Cancer Society, the NFL and the American Cancer Society teamed up to fight cancer and save lives. Crucial Catch helps people catch cancer ...

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Former President Joe Biden is entering a new phase of treatment for the prostate cancer he was diagnosed with in May. Biden is undergoing radiation therapy, a spokesperson for the former president ...

Invasive lobular carcinoma is increasing about 3% each year, the report finds. A fast-rising form of breast cancer that's harder to detect on mammograms now makes up more than one in ten cases in the ...

Scientists have discovered that bacteria living inside tumors can produce a molecule that fights cancer and enhances chemotherapy. The molecule, called 2-methylisocitrate (2-MiCit), was found to make ...

The procedure combines a mastectomy and reconstruction. When the results of her routine mammogram came back with a diagnosis of stage 0 DCIS breast cancer in multiple areas of her right breast, ...

A Scandinavian clinical trial has revealed that low-dose aspirin can halve the risk of colon and rectal cancer recurrence in patients with specific genetic mutations. The research, involving over ...

Former President Joe Biden is undergoing a new phase of treatment for an aggressive form of cancer that was diagnosed in May, a spokesperson said Saturday. "As part of a treatment plan for prostate ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...