You may have heard ovarian cancer referred to as a “silent killer” before, and there’s a good reason for it—the disease doesn’t have as many obvious indicators as, say, breast or skin cancer. But that doesn’t mean women don’t experience…
A Los Angeles jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $417 million to a hospitalized woman who claimed in a lawsuit that the talc in the company’s iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly…
Study demonstrates that tissue-resident and circulating memory T cells cooperate in anti-tumor immunity… Immunotherapy, the use of the immune system to fight cancer, is revolutionizing treatment of this disease, and was selected by the journal Science as the major scientific…
Despite decreases in cancer death rates nationwide, a new report shows they are higher in rural America than in urban areas of the United States. The report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that rural areas had…
Symptoms of a brain tumor can be general or specific. A general symptom is caused by the pressure of the tumor on the brain or spinal cord. Specific symptoms are caused when a specific part of the brain is not…
Your skin type is one of the main factors in your risk for skin cancer. There are six skin phototypes, going from light to dark. Those individuals with skin types I and II face the highest risk of developing skin…
#FuckCancerFRIDAY Today we say, Fuck Cancer for all the nurses who stand by our side during our FIGHT! #NationalNursesWeek FxCK CANCER Warrior Larkin Rodriguez – “I wrote this a few years ago for Nurses Appreciation Week and I wanted to re-post it because…
May is National Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month. This month is dedicated to increasing public awareness of the importance of skin cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment, including basal cell, squamous cell, and melanoma. Skin cancer is the most…
ATTENTION CANCER FIGHTERS! The World’s Loudest Month Tour is upon us and we want to give you the experience of a lifetime! If you or someone you know lives in or around the area of these music festivals and would…
About one of every three Americans will develop some form of malignancy during his or her lifetime. This year alone, about 1,437,000 new cases will be diagnosed, and more than 565,000 people will die of the disease. Cancer is the…