If there's one good thing about skin cancer, it's that you can spot it yourself—if you know what to look for. And the earlier you can find skin cancer, the sooner you can seek treatment. The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends doing a self-examination once ...

Experts have warned that three symptoms affecting the whole body could signal cancer. These “general” signs could be easily dismissed or mistaken for something else. There are more than 200 types of cancer that affect the human body. Typically the symptoms will therefore depend on where the disease is.

Misusing the words cancer and tumour can be confusing and misleading. This may be because the word "cancer" carries a stigma of sickness and death, even though many cancers have a good outlook

If you could take a simple blood test that could detect multiple types of cancer while they’re still in an early and treatable stage, would you? For many, the answer would be a resounding yes. Currently, only five cancers have standard screening tests ...

Therapies that target the utilization of fat by tumors and activate a type of cell death dependent on fat molecules may be a promising avenue to treat cancer, according to new research by UTHealth Houston.