A new definition of rectal cancer in the Netherlands prompted reclassification of cancer as sigmoid tumors, which could lead to better treatment. Rectal and sigmoidal tumors have been hard to ...

A group of experts advising the nation’s premier cancer-research institution has recommended changing the very definition of cancer and eliminating the word entirely from some common diagnoses as part ...

Dr. Esserman is a surgeon and breast cancer oncologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Eggener is a surgeon and urologic oncologist at the University of Chicago. “You have cancer.” ...

Survivorship standards guide multidisciplinary collaboration, addressing resource gaps and enhancing services across all survivorship stages. The definition of survivorship now includes the entire ...

Learning cancer terminology is difficult. Learn these cancer terms to better understand the type of cancer you have and the recommended treatment.

There is no universally accepted definition for recurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) across treatment categories such as total thyroidectomy with or without radioactive iodine ablation ...

Defining cure in stage II and III colon cancer has been challenging, and has never been systematically studied. In an analysis of 15 randomized trials, colon cancer relapse risk fell to 0.5% by year 6 ...