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Experts offered tips for primary care providers that can especially help their Black patients quit smoking.

Behavioral interventions, such as patient navigation, help increase the completion of colorectal cancer screening colonoscopy.

/PRNewswire/ -- Exact Sciences Corp. (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced late-breaking data from the...

In order to diagnose and treat breast cancer, doctors first have to find it. Identifying tumors in the earliest stages rests on the radiology department, with its array of imaging

“If it hurts, just know it’s only a few seconds and can save your life,” the actress said on the Oct. 20 episode of 'The Drew Barrymore Show'

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends women who are at average risk for breast cancer get screening mammograms every two years starting at age 40. The recommendation is in response …

Other experts point to data that suggests lowering the screening age may not improve outcomes

In October of 2013, Jen Waterman noticed a lump on her breast while breastfeeding her twins. Waterman, who was 33 at the time, was diagnosed with Stage 3 B breast cancer, starting a battle with …

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and Oct. 19 has been designated National Mammography Day. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each year in the United States, approximately 240,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women and about 2,100 in men, an

New research suggests that lung cancer is being diagnosed more often in younger and middle-aged women than in men their age.