One treatment option for lung cancer may be a pneumonectomy, which is surgery to remove a lung. Because this can permanently reduce your breathing capacity, most surgeons usually try to choose a less ...

Jaelle Goddard, from Barbados, was diagnosed with stage 3c cervical cancer at age 23 after repeatedly having her concerns dismissed by doctors. Cervical cancer begins in the cells lining the cervix ...

CNN chief correspondent, award-winning anchor, and dad of three, John King has revealed he’s altered his life to better live with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease he initially chose to keep private.

Sarah Ferguson, the 65-year-old Duchess of York and British author, describes being diagnosed with breast cancer and skin cancer just six months apart as “hard,” however, the resilient mom of two has ...

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Actor Jeff Bridges, who recently lost his family home during the Palisade’s Fire in California, previously admitted he had a specific “vision” of what the “The Giver” would be like, and although it ...

“A positive attitude is really important,” says Dr. Zuri Murrell, a colorectal surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. If you have just been diagnosed with cancer, negative feelings are ...

Oswald Peterson, 54, is a stage four lung cancer survivor who has been cancer free after receiving treatment with a game changing class of drugs called checkpoint inhibitors (or PD-L1 inhibitors), ...

SurvivorNet holds an annual Close the Gap conference to educate, spread awareness, and ultimately, work to eliminate, racial disparities in cancer care. The goal is to ensure everyone has access to ...

You’ve been diagnosed with cancer. For many younger women the first thought is, “can I still get pregnant?” You’ll probably be referred to a fertility specialist, and freezing your eggs for later use ...

Brigette Douglass, initially mistaking her vision loss for a migraine, learned she had uveal melanoma, a rare and fast-spreading form of eye cancer. Douglass received an innovative plaque ...

When multiple myeloma comes back you are going to face decisions about which treatment to choose because there is no single standard of care. We’ve created a series of videos to help you in this ...