Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Rep. Yvette Clarke and Senator Angela Alsobrooks are among the Black women lawmakers leading a four-bill push for research, early detection and culturally competent care.

I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...

A common anti-nausea drug used during chemotherapy may do more than ease discomfort, it could help women with aggressive ...

A new study has found that a commonly prescribed anti-nausea medication is associated with a better prognosis for women with ...

Older women with larger waist circumference may be at a much greater risk of dying for any given BMI, according to ...

Austin Public Health looks at 10 years worth of mortality data by disease, gender and race in new chronic disease report.

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in women and the third most common in men. Since the 1980s, the incidence of colorectal cancer in individuals 50 and older has ...

"He suffered awful pain as the cancer was growing and he really suffered mentally, and it broke our hearts to watch this" ...