Overview and Types If you have been diagnosed with a gastrointestinal stromal tumor or are worried about it, you likely have a lot of questions. Learning some basics is a good place to start.

Treatment for some types of cancer can cause fertility issues later in life. If your child or teen has cancer, this might affect their ability to have children in the future. But there may be ways to ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, except for skin cancers. It accounts for about 30% (or 1 in 3) of all new female cancers each year. The American Cancer Society's ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a way to get immune cells called T cells (a type of white blood cell) to fight cancer by changing them in the lab so they can find and destroy cancer ...

Some treatments for rheumatoid arthritis could increase cancer risk. One reason is because some cells in our immune system ...

The purpose of these estimates is to inform state and local cancer care organizations and providers, patient support programs ...

Cancer Facts & Figures 2023 is an educational companion for Cancer Statistics 2023, a scientific paper published in the American Cancer Society journal, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. These ...

Chemotherapy along with radiation therapy is an effective treatment for some cervical cancers. Learn about different chemo drugs and possible side effects.

Many people can have polyps and, like Andy, have no symptoms. A polyp can take as many as 10 to 15 years to develop into cancer. Experts are not sure exactly how or why colorectal polyps grow or what ...

The two most important things you can do to prevent cervical cancer are to get the HPV vaccine if you are eligible, and to be tested regularly according to American Cancer Society (ACS) guidelines.

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