I had cancer 17 years ago when I was diagnosed. There was no internet. I mean there was an internet but it was in the very early stages. There were none other resources that were available, certainly...
I had a lump in my neck, in the collarbone here and I had to go down for some scripts so I just mentioned it to the doctor casually. He sent me for an x-ray. I came back and he said ‘I think I’d like...
How is prostate cancer different from other types of cancer? What we know from the tumor biology that prostate cancer is an extremely slow growing tumor, that does not mean that patients will die of...

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The curious part was I was 36 weeks pregnant, and I'm looking down and sad because I'm finding out I have cancer. But I see this beautiful belly and I know I'm about to have...

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I am Anna McGill, a Genetic counselor here at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center. As a genetic counselor, it is my job to help women and men with a personal or family history of cancer. In certain...
Did you know that more than 12 and a half million Americans are alive today who were previously diagnosed with cancer as children or adults? Thanks to improvements in early detection and treatment,...
Stage 0, DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ) is a noninvasive cancer where abnormal cells have been found in the lining of the breast milk duct. Even though Stage 0 cancer is still noninvasive, it does...

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[Silence] >> I started having mammograms age 40. And so 27 years later, I was thinking, "Well, I might just miss this one because I had no family history of any problems and it...
The National Lung Screening Trial was designed with the purpose of determining whether screening with low-dose helical CT was more effective in reducing deaths from lung cancer or resulting in fewer...

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