Nurses often keep quiet about incompetent colleagues or when they see fellow health-care workers making mistakes that could harm patients, new research finds. In recent years, many hospitals have taken steps to reduce medical errors through measures such as checklists, patient handoff...
There have been tremendous improvements in cancer diagnosis and treatment in the last half-century. Unfortunately, the treatment of patients has lagged behind...
Whenever we hear about someone having cancer, usually included in the news is what particular "stage" cancer he/she has....
A "shocking new treatment that some doctors believe offers hope to cancer patients with tumors that would have been inoperable in...
It's not often that there is a proven natural treatment to recommend to the approximately 12 million people in the...
Cell phones may not increase the risk of brain cancer, a British study finds. An analysis of data on newly diagnosed cases...
The odds a second cancer will develop after radiation treatment for a first cancer are relatively low, US National Cancer Institute (NCD...
Cancer patients are willing to tolerate multiple needle pokes, X-rays, ultrasounds, PET and CT scans to receive advanced experimental treatments in early-stage...
Prostate cancer is the most common malignancy among men in the US-in 2009, 1 there were 192,280 new cases. In men...
With all the controversy now surrounding testing and treatment for prostate cancer, it's no wonder that men are confused. When...
Just six months of hormone therapy, along with radiation, cuts the risk of dying from locally advanced prostate cancer in half when...
Fentanyl (Abstral) tablets have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to help opioid-tolerant adults with cancer manage so-called...