“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 ...

Actress Susan Sullivan, 82, who announced she was “cancer-free” from non-small cell lung cancer (the most common type of lung cancer) last year, is now battling lymphoma. She hasn’t specified what ...

A new targeted approach, which combines a drug called encorafenib with cetuximab and chemotherapy regimen mFOLFOX6, has received accelerated FDA approval for metastatic colorectal cancer with a BRAF ...

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), ...

A new study demonstrated that a drug called pirtobrutinib (brand name Jaypirca) led to a 46% lower risk of CLL progression or death and extended the time to the next treatment by more than double ...

Peripheral neuropathy (ie. tingling, numbness, pain, or weakness in the hands and feet) can be a really difficult side effect of chemotherapy. Peripheral neuropathy disproportionately affects Black ...

Can you learn to forgive yourself? This video might be one of the most important things we’ve published on SurvivorNet. One of the most important we may ever publish. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Dr.

Wouldn’t you want to be told? It is a well-documented fact that surgery to remove the prostate can actually reduce the size of the penis. The men on the SurvivorNet staff almost blew a gasket when ...

"As someone on the front lines, who sees this every day, I've seen lung cancer caused by marijuana that is incredibly aggressive," says Dr. Raja Flores, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic Surgery ...

It began as a lump in her groin. They thought it was a hernia, but when they did the operationthey found the melanoma. A very large one that required surgery to remove. Dr. Anna Pavlick, a medical ...

Connie Campbell was 11 years old when she discovered she had a type of brain tumor called medulloblastoma [a rare primary central nervous system tumor] just days after going on rollercoaster prompted ...

Actress Danielle Fishel, 43, is making progress in her breast cancer journey after sharing her ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), or stage zero, diagnosis in August, but the mom of two says she has been ...