A viewpoint published in The Journal of the American Medical Association recommended refining the definition of cancer and reexamining how the disease is detected and treated. Laura Esserman, one of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A group of experts advising the US's premier cancer research institution has recommended changing the very definition of cancer and ...

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 ...

Survivorship standards guide multidisciplinary collaboration, addressing resource gaps and enhancing services across all survivorship stages. The definition of survivorship now includes the entire ...

Colorectal cancer is cancer that starts in the colon or the rectum. Colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine (colon), which is the final part of your digestive tract. Most cases of colon cancer ...

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 ...