Prostate and lung cancer have been the No. 1 and 2 cancers among men. Stomach cancer, the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide, has been on a steady decline among Koreans and Japanese. Black men had the highest overall rates of cancer.

Millions of Americans may have heard on the news last week that metastatic prostate cancer was increasing dramatically in the United States. However, national data demonstrate that, in fact, the rates are not changing.

In the end, lung cancer left Jerome Grant voiceless, a breathing tube in his windpipe.
He could say nothing when his wife Dawn spoke her last words to him: “I love you, you know that?”
He gave her a thumbs up. Then he closed his eyes and was gone.

Almost 20 percent of the people in low-income communities who die of colon cancer could have been saved with early screening. And those premature deaths take a toll on communities that can least bear it.

The NAACCReview has been live for 6 months now and has been averaging a post every two weeks or so. Our small Editorial Board is looking for a few more members to allow us to increase this frequency.

One in three women diagnosed with ovarian cancer will live for 10 years or more, according to a new study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology — good news, considering ovarian cancer has long been considered highly fatal.

Every year, thousands of people like Blanca Guerra call the National Cancer Information Center, desperate to find some kind of health insurance.

I am dying, literally, at my home in Hollywood, of metastatic breast cancer, the only kind of breast cancer that kills.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has posted draft breast cancer screening recommendations for public comments (http://screeningforbreastcancer.org/) along with supporting information.

For the first time, Medicare will cover the costs of lung cancer screening for some beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on February 5.