Many survivors say life after cancer can prove more challenging than treatment. People like Lourdes Monje, diagnosed at 25, talk about feeling robbed of their youth, and its sense of invulnerability ...

Organ-sparing treatments offer alternatives to surgery, preserving quality of life for patients with specific genetic mutations in cancers like rectal and bladder cancer. Clinical trials with immune ...

Cancer is increasingly survivable, but younger people are getting the disease at higher rates, then facing myriad challenges with life afterward. Many dynamics are reshaping what it means to have ...

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought. For decades, it was the kind of disease that doctors might encounter only once or ...

Appendix cancer, also called appendiceal cancer, is when abnormal cells grow and form a tumor in the appendix. Your appendix is a little pouch-like organ attached to the lower right side of your large ...

Cancer is generally a disease of old age. But researchers are increasingly finding that certain types—including colon, breast, stomach, and pancreatic cancers—are hitting people younger than 50 far ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Cancers in younger adults are surging. Colon cancer, once a midlife disease, is striking earlier than ever. Breast and kidney cancers are also climbing in people under 50. And now, ...

A concerning pattern has emerged in cancer diagnosis trends, with appendix cancer appearing more frequently among adults in their twenties, thirties, and forties. This rare form of cancer, once ...

From left, Dr. Vadim Guschin, Director of Mercy’s heated chemotherapy (HIPEC) program and a member of the Surgical Oncology Department, and Armando Sardi, M.D., Medical Director of The Institute for ...

A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine reported a sharp and troubling rise in appendix cancer rates among younger generations, particularly Millennials and Generation X. According ...

Most people only ever think about their appendix if it needs to be removed. But a worrying new trend is rewriting this narrative, as appendix cancer is on the rise in younger generations. A study ...