For some people with kidney cancer, treatment can remove or destroy the cancer. Completing treatment can be both stressful and exciting. You may be relieved to finish treatment, yet it can be hard not ...

In 2022, approximately 20 million cancer cases were newly diagnosed and 9.7 million people died from the disease worldwide. By 2050, the number of cancer cases is predicted to increase to 35 million ...

Leticia Nogueira, PhD, MPH, is the scientific director of health services research in the Surveillance & Health Equity Science department at the American Cancer Society (ACS). Her research focuses on ...

If your child has a brain or spinal cord tumor, knowing what to expect can help you cope. Here you can find out all about brain and spinal cord tumors in children, including risk factors, symptoms, ...

African Americans have a higher cancer burden and face greater obstacles to cancer prevention, detection, treatment, and survival. In fact, Black people have the highest death rate and shortest ...

HPV can be passed from one person to another by intimate skin-to-skin contact. It’s not spread through blood or body fluids. HPV can be spread to someone else even when an infected person has no signs ...

HPV (human papillomavirus) may not cause any symptoms. Since this virus is spread through intimate skin-to-skin contact, someone who has HPV might not know it unless they are getting routine testing ...

This joint guideline from the American Cancer Society, the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and the American Society for Clinical Pathology recommends different surveillance ...

Get an overview of melanoma skin cancer and the latest key statistics in the US. Melanoma accounts for only about 1% of skin cancers but causes a large majority of skin cancer deaths. If you have been ...

The American Cancer Society (ACS) projects the numbers of new cancer cases and deaths expected each year to estimate the contemporary cancer burden because cancer incidence and mortality data lag 2 to ...

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