If you are diagnosed with thyroid cancer, doctors will try to figure out whether it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a cancer describes how much cancer is ...

Every person can take two actions to greatly reduce their risk of developing and dying from the most common types of cancer in the United States: Make efforts to reduce those harmful everyday habits ...

Signs and symptoms of cancer depend on where the cancer is, how big it is, and how much it affects nearby organs or tissues. If a cancer has spread (metastasized), signs or symptoms may appear in ...

“Discarding unnecessary medication is really important. Exposure or accidental ingestion are concerns, especially if you have ...

If your cancer has come back, your doctor might suggest a biopsy to verify that it’s a recurrence instead of a second cancer.

B-cell lymphomas make up most (about 85%) of the non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) in the United States. These types of lymphomas start in early forms of B lymphocytes (B cells). The most common types of ...

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a type of cancer that starts in white blood cells (called lymphocytes) in the bone marrow. CLL mainly affects older adults and accounts for about one-third of all ...

As an Associate Scientist in Data Analysis within Population Science, Marisa Wong, MPH, works with other American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers and outside collaborators to conduct statistical ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which was co-created by the American Cancer Society (ACS) in 1985. It began as a week-long campaign to educate women about ...

About 69,120 new cases of cancer of the uterus will be diagnosed. About 13,860 women will die from cancers of the uterus. These estimates include both endometrial cancers and uterine sarcomas. Up to ...

Blood transfusions (or blood product transfusions) temporarily replace parts of your blood when your body can't make them on its own or loses them from bleeding. Learn more about blood products, how ...

Precancerous cells, also called premalignant cells, are abnormal cells that have changes in how they look or grow. The cells are not cancer, but they show changes that raise the risk of turning into ...