Your Cancer Guide

Support should include love, normalcy and age-appropriate information.

by Hester Hill Schnipper

Forward Look

Prostate cancer is diagnosed in an ancient Egyptian mummy.

by Yvonne Lee

Get Involved

A prostate cancer survivor becomes an advocate for cancer patients.

by Yvonne Lee

Forward Look

Does the word “cancer” discourage patients with very early disease from fully considering all their options?

by Stephen Ornes

A serendiptious discovery more than 50 years ago heralded a new age of cancer treatment.

by Jocelyn Selim

Forward Look

Q&A with immunologist James P. Allison, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City.

by Ingfei Chen

Forward Look

Genetic marker discovery could help childhood Hodgkin survivors assess risks associated with radiation.

by Mitzi Baker

Patients are increasingly skipping treatment breaks and opting for ongoing treatment known as maintenance therapy to try to keep some types of cancer at bay.

by Melissa Weber

Forward Look

Is the considerable risk-reduction benefit of CT screening worth the potential downsides?

by Sue Rochman

Yesterday & Today

More than a quarter century after Yul Brynner's death from lung cancer, treatment advances offer some patients new options, but the cancer continues to claim more lives than any other. And the actor's haunting anti-smoking message lives on.

by Sue Rochman