According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), ovarian cancer may cause vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain, back pain, bloating, and difficulty eating. Women should see a doctor immediately if they experience bleeding that isn't menstrual, or if they have any of the other symptoms for two weeks or longer.
James Van Der Beek thanked his father for guiding him physically and emotionally through his colorectal cancer diagnosis in a heartfelt birthday post on social media.
Widow Catherine Robinson, from Australia, stumbled across American widower Randy Mann’s blog in 2018. The two strangers started writing to each other, sharing their experiences of grief. Then they spontaneously decided to go on vacation together.
Medical advances mean many more people are surviving cancer and living for years or decades with its after effects. Here's how they are navigating life after treatment.
The test kits are being offered to 50-year-olds for the first time, but uptake is less than 60%.
"All My Children" star Colin Egglesfield talked about the support he's received after revealing his third cancer diagnosis and urged others to get tested.
After a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and a prognosis of 16 months to live, Katie Doble didn’t know whether she should plan her wedding or her funeral.
Rising diagnoses of certain cancers in people under 50 predate the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines by decades, undermining claims made in a U.S. broadcast that the inoculations have caused a sharp increase of “turbo cancer” in younger age groups.
The malfunctioning mitochondria seem to poison the immune cells, explains Yosuke Togashi, a pulmonary physician and cancer-immunology researcher at Okayama University in Japan, and the lead author of the study. “Mitochondrial transfer plays an important role in TIL exhaustion. But I think it’s just a partial role,” he says.
A cancer charity is celebrating the success of its annual campaign to recycle Christmas trees. More than £12,000 has been raised for the Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust, which is based in Worcester. Volunteers went to households and collected donations in return for taking away Christmas trees.
Following the U.S. surgeon general's new advisory linking alcohol to seven different types of cancer, hotels are expanding alcohol-free offerings. Travel industry experts speak out.