What started as lower abdominal pains in January 2021 that would strike suddenly, like labor pains, eventually escalated to unintended weight loss, loss of appetite, blood in the stool and...

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. The disease remains the fourth most common type of cancer and the second deadliest. In 2022, more than 150,000 people across the United...

Rick Kittles, Ph.D. On Sept. 16, the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) released its inaugural Cancer Disparities Progress Report — and they have pulled no punches. In it, they...

Since they were children, Carol Russell and Judith Holland have been mistaken for twins. They’re not. Just sisters. But their lives have been marked by an uncanny symmetry.   They...

There’s a lot of excitement at the City of Hope Blood Donor Center these days, and snatches of conversation can wax a bit, well, millennial. The air buzzes with talk...

Christian Eggerling can write his own ticket. Or menu, if you will.   Maestro in the kitchen, guru of all things healthful and organic, a culinary prodigy and the 13th...

Writing in The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan describes her 17-year battle with metastatic breast cancer, starting with her shock and fear when she was diagnosed:  “Stage IV cancer! Could it...

As 2022 begins, Cervical Cancer Awareness Month arrives to remind us that there is a cancer that scientists and physicians have really gotten a handle on — as long as...

If Jeff Blake has a personal motto, it probably boils down to two simple words: Move forward.   The 67-year-old IT specialist from La Crescenta, California, always kept a careful...

Kommah McDowell was just 29 when she found a painful mass in her right breast. For seven months in 2005, her primary care physician repeatedly reassured her that she was too...