Diagnosis and Treatment

Your Friend Has Been Diagnosed with Cancer. Here Are 6 Things You Can Do to Support Them

Across the world, one in five people are diagnosed with cancer during their lifetime. By age 85, almost one in two Australians will be diagnosed with cancer.

The Subtle Signs You Have High-Functioning Anxiety

Anxiety and other mental health disorders in men are still largely stigmatized. Beyond first recognizing and identifying the condition, there are vital steps men can take.

My life is a dichotomy in that I’ve spent years in tae kwon do, love football and rodeos, but have an affinity for frozen yogurt and watching Netflix with a good cabernet and wood wick candles next to my cats, Thelma and Louise. I attribute my temperament to genes and California hippy tap water.

Alonzo Mourning Had Surgery to Remove Prostate Following Cancer Diagnosis

Basketball Hall of Famer Alonzo Mourning revealed on Monday that he recently had surgery to remove his prostate following a cancer diagnosis.

Is Proton Therapy Safer than Traditional Radiation?

A type of radiation treatment called proton beam radiation therapy may be safer and just as effective as traditional radiation therapy for adults with advanced cancer. That finding comes from a study that used existing patient data to compare the two types of radiation.

Neurosurgeon Works to Slow Alzheimer's Progression, Treat Addiction with Cutting-Edge Technology

Anyone who has had experience with Alzheimer's disease knows the agony of watching someone fade away as it steals memory and at the end – a person's own identity. Tonight – we'll show you an experimental way to try and beat back Alzheimer's. It's been tested on just a handful of patients – but it caught our attention because of the doctor involved, Dr. Ali Rezai, who 60 Minutes first met 20 years ago. Dr. Rezai is a neuroscience pioneer who has developed treatments for Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.

'Useless' Organ That Doctors Often Remove May Actually Fight Cancer

There's a small fatty gland that sits behind your sternum and is often said to be 'useless' in adulthood.

A recent retrospective study, however, suggests the thymus gland is not nearly as expendable as experts once thought.

US researchers found that those who get their thymus removed face an increased risk of death from any cause later in life.

They also face an increased risk of developing cancer.

Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients May Have Low Spiritual Well-Being

1. In this cross-sectional study, the mean score for spiritual well-being among patients with gastrointestinal (GI) cancer was relatively low.

2. In addition, several factors such as positivity, expectancy, and search for meaning were associated with spiritual well-being in GI cancer patients.

The ecDNA story – Catching the Mastermind Behind Cancer Evolution

We’re working out how cancers evolve. And we’re evolving our research to stop them.

We’ve known why cancers evolve for a long time: it’s the way they grow, survive and resist treatment. It’s a big part of why they’re so dangerous.

But the why isn’t enough. To stop cancers evolving, we need to understand how they do it.

Historically, that’s been a problem: the most aggressive cancers break some of the central rules of evolution.

Epigenetics: Are We in a New Era of Cancer Research?

Epigenetics is a conceptually and practically challenging area of research. However, work over the past 5 years has suggested it could be behind many of the remaining questions we have about how cancers arise, proliferate, and reappear.

Nearly 2 decades since the human genome was sequenced for the first time, in 2003Trusted Source, there are still many questions that remain about how our genomes work.

Fungus is telltale cancer sign, possibly screenable by blood test: Israel-US study

Many tumors are teeming with fungi that shed DNA into blood, and researchers say blood analysis could offer treasure trove of information to detect and to shape treatment

Hunting for fungus in the human body may offer a brand-new method for early detection of cancer, Israeli scientists suggest in new peer-reviewed research.

Working with colleagues in the US, they studied tumors from 17,000 cancer patients to document, for the first time, which fungi live in the tissue.

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