Leukemia rates are two times higher in people living at higher latitudes who are exposed to lower levels of sunlight and are more likely to be vitamin D deficient, according to the results of a recent study published in PLOS One.

Since 1991, the United States has seen deaths related to cancer drop by 23%, according to the American Cancer Society’s (ACS’s) latest Cancer Statistics, 2016, report. Death rates were as high as 215.1 per 100,000 people in the early 1990s. As of 2012, rates have decreased to 166.4 per 100,000, marking a 28% drop in among men and 19% among women.

As a greater number of patients are living beyond a cancer diagnosis, the management of health issues related to the persistent and late effects of cancer treatment is important and essential to long-term improvements in health.

Results from an open-label, phase II, randomized clinical trial comparing docetaxel alone or in combination with PANVAC, a viral-vector cancer vaccine, in patients with metastatic breast cancer suggest that the vaccine may have some clinical benefit.

Advances in technology are changing the world, and nowhere is that more impactful than the provision of health care. Nurses are on the forefront of patient care and understand the multitude of components involved in treating people and educating on symptom management.

A new study has reported that the oral BRAF inhibitor vemurafenib is effective in treating patients with relapsed or refractory hairy cell leukemia.

A new study has found an increase in the number of women younger than 26 who have received a diagnosis of early-stage cervical cancer. Researchers concluded that it is most likely the effect of the Affordable Care Act.

At the onset, patients diagnosed with cancer can feel a loss of control. Research has shown that when patients and providers participate in shared decision making (SDM), both parties find greater satisfaction in the overall decision and adherence to the treatment plan improves.

Researchers studying 14,000 patients with gastrointestinal cancer in the Netherlands have found that patients who took aspirin following their diagnosis were twice as likely to be alive after four years as those who did not take the drug.

For the first time, the incidence of breast cancer among African American women in the United States is equal to that of Caucasian women, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society.

Disparities in colorectal death rates take a large toll on the national economy, with the greatest burden on poorer, less well-educated communities, according to a study presented at the Eighth American Association for Cancer Research Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities.

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in the United States and is expected to cause close to 50,000 deaths in 2015. However, a new observational study has found that a vegetarian diet could significantly reduce the risk of developing the disease.

Researchers at Cancer Research UK have reported that in one month, “citizen scientists” have used a new smartphone game, Play to Cure: Genes in Space, to analyze DNA data that would have taken a scientist six months to analyze manually.