This guide will help you understand how throat cancer is diagnosed and what your diagnosis means. Learning as much as you can may help you feel ready to talk with doctors about your care. The ...

Most patients who undergo gastric cancer staging by lymph node sampling have inadequate assessments that compromise survival, according to a new study. Published in the November 1, 2006 issue of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Can you define the characteristics of the four stages of cancer? I understand that stage I is generally when cancer is caught early and can be treated with a good success rate, while ...

Using a novel method to analyze tumor growth rates, researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have provided the most in-depth assessment to date of how fast breast cancers grow in patients and how ...

Their makers claim they can detect dozens of cancer types — but some scientists say they could be missing many cancers or ...

Hodgkin lymphoma (formerly known as Hodgkin disease), which involves an abnormal type of lymphocyte called Reed-Sternberg cells Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, which does not contain Reed-Sternberg cells Both ...