Cancer Articles

After cancer treatment, you should be eager to return to optimum health. There are things you can do to enhance your long-term health status so that you can relish the years ahead and be proud to announce that you are a cancer survivor.

If not sooner, people over 50 should start taking greater care of their health: not just curative, but also preventive. This is not old age, but is an age when people are more exposed to potential diseases.

In a diet-crazy world, it may seem a little odd to be writing about how to maintain body fat rather than about how to lose it. But if you have cancer, that is exactly what you need to do to survive, and even thrive, as you work for remission.

Hereditary breast cancers account for up to fifth of all cases of this disease. Modern methods of genetic testing allow to identify the individuals at risk and advice on the best preventative strategy.

Dr. Carl O. Helvie, a registered nurse and the holder of a doctor's degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1974. He's still around. Here are the highlights of his story.

Researchers in Canada are using advanced mathematical models to fight cancer. By developing strategies to make cancer cells sensitive to viral infection, they are successful in protecting healthy cells while killing cancer cells.

Accusations from Venezuela that the US government "gave" the late Hugo Chavez cancer don't seem to have any basis in fact. But a predisposition to cancer in fact can be transmitted from one person to another.

A diet rich in fiber has always been associated with good health. It can lead to lower cholesterol levels and weight loss. And now, consuming a diet rich in fiber can decrease your chances of developing breast cancer by almost 11%

Ovarian cancer rates have been dropping for decades now, but far too many women still die from this disease. What are the treatment methods used in the 21st century, what are your screening options, and what do you need to know about the symptoms?

This isn't an article about a miraculous cure for ovarian cancer. It's about a way to extend life, in many cases, by about a year, without using larger doses of drugs or increasing radiation. It's about a method that's, sadly, largely ignored.