The Internship Program targets undergraduate college students to increase their awareness and enthusiasm for opportunities to ...

If you are diagnosed with thyroid cancer, doctors will try to figure out whether it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a cancer describes how much cancer is ...

After someone is diagnosed with stomach cancer (gastric cancer), doctors will do exams and tests to help determine if it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. The stage of a ...

To understand bile duct cancer, it helps to know about the bile ducts and what they normally do. Bile is a fluid made in your liver and stored in your gallbladder. Your bile ducts are a series of thin ...

The most common approaches to treating acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) in adults are described here. To learn how children with APL are treated, see here. Prompt diagnosis and treatment of acute ...

B-cell lymphomas make up most (about 85%) of the non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) in the United States. These types of lymphomas start in early forms of B lymphocytes (B cells). The most common types of ...

Estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2020 (In 2020, there will be an estimated 1.8 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 606,520 cancer deaths in the United States.) Current cancer ...

Cancer starts when cells in the body begin to grow out of control. Cells in nearly any part of the body can become cancer, and can then spread to other areas of the body. To learn more about cancer ...

Although breast cancer is much more common in women, men can get it too. Understanding the causes and risk factors, such as genetics, hormone levels, and certain medical conditions, can help you take ...

If you’ve been diagnosed with esophageal (esophagus) cancer, your cancer care team will discuss your treatment options with you. It’s important to weigh the benefits of each treatment option against ...

Colorectal cancer might not cause symptoms right away, but if it does, it may cause one or more of these symptoms. Colorectal cancers can often bleed into the digestive tract. Sometimes the blood can ...

Signs and symptoms of cancer depend on where the cancer is, how big it is, and how much it affects nearby organs or tissues. If a cancer has spread (metastasized), signs or symptoms may appear in ...