A new definition of rectal cancer in the Netherlands prompted reclassification of cancer as sigmoid tumors, which could lead to better treatment. Rectal and sigmoidal tumors have been hard to ...

Medical researchers use knockout cells to study how genes function and how genes can be used for medical treatments. For example, a knockout cell line for liver cancer might turn off a gene linked ...

What is a cancer cluster? A cancer cluster is defined by the Centers for Disease Control as a greater-than-expected number of cancer cases that occurs within a group of people in a geographic area ...

Defining cure in stage II and III colon cancer has been challenging, and has never been systematically studied. In an analysis of 15 randomized trials, colon cancer relapse risk fell to 0.5% by year 6 ...

Authors of a paper published in Annals of Internal Medicine proposed a standard definition of “overdiagnosis” regarding cancer screening to improve practices for estimating overdiagnosis and ...

Based on patterns of recurrence-free survival (RFS) over time in some studies, the researchers determined that 5-year RFS may be a suitable surrogate for measuring cure. In considering outcomes for ...

Valarie Traynham shares what survivorship means to her, and how the definition has evolved after her diagnosis, during National Cancer Survivors Month. Survivorship can mean something different to ...

CHICAGO (February 26, 2020): The best approach for surgeons to identify malnourished cancer patients before they have a cancer operation may be specifically related to the type of cancer the patient ...

Seemingly every medical condition has myths surrounding it. Cancer is no exception. One such myth is that the fungus Candida causes cancer or that cancer cells are actually a form of fungus. Research ...