When most of us hear the word cancer, we usually flash to the baldness, the frailty, the translucence in our mind’s eye. The quiet resignation. A life paused, diminished. Someone existing in the ...

Gum (gingival) cancer is a rare type of oral cancer. Gingival cancer grows in the thin skin layer protecting your teeth. The skin layer is also called your gingiva. It covers your upper and lower jaws ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Cancer is a word that has affected us all in some way. A mom, a cousin, a friend, the cashier you see every week at the grocery store. And the statistics don’t lie: diagnoses are on the rise. Yet when ...

Former President Joe Biden was diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer that spread to the bone, a spokesperson said on Sunday, May 18. Biden was diagnosed on Friday, two days before the ...

Former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his office announced on Sunday. The 82-year-old has what is described as an “aggressive form” of cancer that has already spread to ...

City of Hope CEO Robert Stone says a collaborative spirit defines modern cancer leadership. When Robert Stone thinks about what makes City of Hope stand apart, it's the people. He recalls a patient ...