Three years ago, Maurice Blake was diagnosed with prostate cancer. "I didn't have any of the traditional symptoms, apart from ...

People who have received a cancer diagnosis are living longer than ever, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society (ACS). Decades of cancer research have led to more effective ...

Cancer survival rates in the U.S. are the highest they’ve been since the 1970s. In 1970, only half of patients lived past five years. Now, at least 70 percent of U.S. cancer patients are surviving for ...

Wolinsky is a Chicago-based medical journalist and publisher of The Active Surveillor, a Substack newsletter that covers lower-risk prostate cancer and active surveillance. In 2002, at age 55, I ...