At age 39, Angela found a small breast lump. After some testing, she had a lumpectomy and the tumor was found to be a stage 0 ...

What you eat and drink can impact your health in a big way. In fact, getting to and staying at a healthy weight, eating a balanced diet, and avoiding or limiting alcohol are 3 of the best ways to help ...

The American Cancer Society couldn't do what we do without the support of our partners. Learn more about how these partnerships support our efforts to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Each ...

Immunotherapy is the use of medicines that help a person’s own immune system find and destroy cancer cells. It can be used to treat some people with liver cancer. An important part of the immune ...

Pancreatic cancer is on the rise in the United States, but there's another, less common type called pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET). It's important to know the difference, because these two ...

A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. It happens when the body’s normal process of making and replacing cells doesn’t work as it should. When a neoplasm forms into an abnormal growth, ...

If polyps were found and removed during your colonoscopy, you might be worried about what that means for your colorectal cancer risk. Most colorectal cancers start as polyps, which are small growths ...

Diagnosed with colorectal cancer at just 29, Chris Lopez was the youngest patient his oncologist had ever treated. Now in remission, he’s turning his experience into a mission: raising awareness, ...

Precancerous cells, also called premalignant cells, are abnormal cells that have changes in how they look or grow. The cells are not cancer, but they show changes that raise the risk of turning into ...

Lymphoma is a cancer that starts in cells that are part of the body's immune system. Rare lymphomas that start in the skin are called skin lymphomas (or cutaneous lymphomas). If you have a skin ...