You might think you know the signs to look out for, but with risk increasing with age, this World Cancer Day serves as an ...

Despite these totals, the long-term trend in cancer mortality reflects significant progress. As of 2023, the age-adjusted cancer death rate had dropped by 34% from its peak in 1991, averting an ...

Colon and rectal cancers, once largely confined to people in their 60s and 70s, are increasingly striking adults in their 40s, 30s and even 20s. The shift is so sharp that specialists now talk about a ...

Appendix cancer, also called appendiceal cancer, is when abnormal cells grow and form a tumor in the appendix. Your appendix is a little pouch-like organ attached to the lower right side of your large ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Cancer: it’s a diagnosis that most of us have learned to fear. On the one hand decades ...