cancer

Lacks’s cells were taken without her consent and used for decades.

A new procedure provides patients unresponsive to other treatments an alternative and may reduce the need for more invasive surgeries.

Breast Cancer research faces funding crunch as awareness month ramps up.

Physical activity has many benefits, but new researches have shown a link between active patience and cancer survivals. Dr. Leana Wen sits with Tom to discuss the latest news in medicine.

Colorectal cancer cases among Americans age 55 and younger nearly doubled between 1995 and 2019. Why? What can people do to lower their risk?

This week on the podcast, two stories about women setting a brave — and joyful — new course in the wake of sickness and loss.

The success of the legal strategy increases the likelihood that this becomes the first in a series of complaints seeking compensation for, and control of, Lacks’ cells.

Insurers will be prohibited from imposing fees on breast and lung testing.

This week on the podcast, two tales about curative powers that fall outside the established medical field.

Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden’s life has been studying how the brain decodes what makes us human. Now the self-described “science nerd” is applying his curiosity to his own diagnosis of terminal cancer. We ask how he’ll spend the time he has left.