A study published Friday from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center suggests that some forms of the disease may be caused by naturally-occurring mutations Certain types of cancer can be caused by ...

You’ve seen this type of video in your News Feed countless times: generically peppy music, chunky-letter captions, and claims of a breakthrough medical discovery that, if you bother to watch closely, ...

It was bound to arouse controversy—the assertion that “bad luck” has a predominant role in cancer. And so it has. Since it appeared in a research paper published in Science, the idea that much of the ...

What role does fate play when it comes to the 145,000 people diagnosed with cancer each year in Australia and 125,000 people in Vietnam? What role does fate play when it comes to the 145,000 people ...

I don’t know of anyone who doesn’t fear the big “C” diagnosis. Most people spend a lot of time trying to figure out where it came from. Is this the same kind of cancer that Great Aunt Sally had, ...

Well, this is a drag. Smoking is to blame for 20% of US cancer cases and nearly 30% of cancer deaths, the American Cancer Society (ACS) warns in new research. In fact, the organization insists that 4 ...

For decades, researchers have worked to determine the causes behind a wide variety of mysterious cancers in an effort to prevent them before they occur. And while genetic factors and lifestyle choices ...

Rates of some cancers, including colorectal, are rising among young adults in the U.S., even as deaths from all forms of the disease decline overall, a new report finds. (Getty Images) Here’s the good ...

There is curious comfort in believing that a cancer diagnosis is just a bad hand. But in the more than 50 years since the Surgeon General’s 1964 report on smoking and lung cancer, we’ve absorbed a ...

Two thought provoking and disturbing studies out Wednesday raise major questions about conduct of the “War on Cancer.” One examines the quality of basic research and the other concludes that half of ...

However, scientists are still learning how these vegetables can promote health. In one study, about 25,000 people from Italy and Switzerland were grouped according to how much onion and garlic they ...