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A new study further confirms racial disparities in the quality of communication between physicians and patients.

Women diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer are more apt to receive adjuvant chemotherapy, but at the expense of completing locoregional radiation therapy.

Public health recommendations regarding diet and lifestyle to prevent heart disease and diabetes may also decrease a man’s likelihood of dying of prostate cancer.

By combining a cancer drug with a medication for erectile dysfunction and including a third therapy for heart transplants, researchers were able to kill cancer cells and protect the heart from damage.

Hispanic breast cancer survivors who believed their English-language proficiency to be limited were less likely to rate their own health as good, very good, or excellent.

The risk for estrogen receptor–negative and progesterone receptor–negative breast cancer is reduced with breast-feeding, according to study results.

Results of the first case-control study of the patterns and timing of sunlight exposure and how each is related to basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma have been published.

When taken by colorectal cancer patients whose tumors carry a mutation in a key gene, aspirin can extend life.

Synribo (omacetaxine mepesuccinate) was recently approved by the FDA to treat adults with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) whose cancer has progressed after treatment with at least 2 tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs).

Predicting a woman’s long-term risk for developing postmenopausal breast cancer was accomplished through the use of blood hormone testing.