When Jayant Parthasarathy lost family members to breast, brain, ovarian, and prostate cancers, his next mission was clear.

For years, it has been one of the most tantalizing ideas in medicine: One day, a simple blood test will detect nascent cancers - allowing doctors to intervene when tumors may be easier to treat. A ...

Imagine a future where some cancers are caught before symptoms appear, before they spread, before lives are disrupted. That’s the potential of multi-cancer early detection (MCED), a transformative ...

Colon cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths. It typically begins as a small growth of tissue called a polyp in the lining of the colon or rectum. While not all polyps become cancerous, ...

Lobular breast cancer rates increased 2.8 percent per year over the past decade, compared with a 0.8 percent annual increase for all other breast cancers. Lobular breast cancer grows in a linear ...

Maria Menounos, whose went through surgery in 2017 to remove a meningioma and in 2023 to remove a neuroendocrine cacner of her pancreas,hosts a podcast called the Heal Squad. (Photo: Lemieux Creative ...

Every October, it seems like there’s a pink ribbon—the universal symbol for breast cancer—everywhere you go. However, most people may not even recognize an ovarian cancer awareness ribbon unless ...

Researchers at Michigan State University created an insect brain-based gas sensing platform to detect lung cancer cell lines. With more development, the technology could be used to detect cancer and ...

Dr. Usman Shah, who is a medical oncologist at Overlook Medical Center, phase 1 and gastrointestinal oncology medical director, emphasized in an interview with CURE that colorectal cancer screening ...

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers among men in the U.S. About 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. But experts ...

After a prenatal test revealed that she had cancer, Dr. Sara Teichholtz (shown here with her 4-year-old son) was treated at MSK for cholangiocarcinoma. Nearly three years later, she has no evidence of ...

TEXAS – A new wave of blood tests is changing how doctors detect cancer. These tests can find signs of cancer early, sometimes before symptoms appear, giving patients a better chance at successful ...