An immunotherapy kept multiple myeloma at bay for over 80 percent of patients in a three-year clinical trial, and the FDA offered an accelerated approval path.

An annual report from the American Cancer Society shows that, for the first time, over 70% of Americans diagnosed with cancer can expect to live at least five years. The increase from the mid-1970s, when that number was just 49% is huge.

Cancer survival rates climbed significantly in recent decades. But federal funding cuts could threaten that progress, physicians warn

A mother-of-two with stage four bowel cancer is campaigning to stop emergency diagnoses after she was told she had the disease while she was on her own, with no family to support her. Sana Shaikh, 32, said it was "devastating" to receive her stage three bowel cancer diagnosis in an accident and emergency department.

The mother and daughter received identical diagnoses just over a year apart of multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that occurs when plasma cells become abnormal and produce dangerous proteins that can cause damage to our bones, kidneys and other functions.

“You have this clear marker that you’re sick,” McQueen explains. “People feel entitled to speak about your illness in a way that I’m not sure others with chronic illnesses that are less visible experience. Your humanity is replaced with this tragic figure. You kind of flatten from this multifaceted person to this 2D figure: cancer patient.”

Shame can shape how early patients get diagnosed, and how aggressively they pursue treatment, if at all. In a 2014 study, Dr. Carter-Bawa found that lung cancer stigma was tied to patients waiting longer to seek care, regardless of smoking status or health care distrust.

What was once a metro Atlanta restaurateur's modest tribute to her late mother has become a multi-million-dollar philanthropy operation saving lives.

Sheinelle Jones thought her late husband Uche Ojeh would beat brain cancer: 'Not once did I think I was going to lose him.'

The five-year relative survival for all cancers combined has reached a milestone, according to the American Cancer Society.