If you have bone cancer or are close to someone who does, knowing what to expect may be helpful. Here you can find out more about bone cancer, including types, risk factors, symptoms, and how tumors ...

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 American Cancer Society DetermiNation bike events turn every mile into momentum. When you ride with the American Cancer Society, you’re not just signing up for a cycling event — you’re choosing to ...

This annual report provides the estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2017, as well as current cancer incidence, mortality, and survival statistics and information on cancer symptoms, ...

IV lines and ports are used a lot during cancer treatment. Knowing what they are, why they’re used, and how to care for them helps you better manage your care. IV lines (catheters) and ports are both ...

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 ...

A risk factor is anything that increases your chances of getting a disease, like breast cancer. Many risk factors for breast cancer are beyond your control, like being born female and getting older.

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 ...

Anal cancer starts in the anus. Cancer develops when cells in the body begin to grow out of control. The anus is the opening at the last part of the intestines that connects to the outside of the body ...

Some people have few or no side effects from radiation therapy. Others have quite a few. Every person reacts differently to treatment. Your side effects will also depend on the type and location of ...

After someone is diagnosed with mesothelioma, doctors will try to figure out if it has spread, and if so, how far. This process is called staging. Pleural mesothelioma, the most common type, is the ...

The end of life is different for everyone. No one can predict how long the final stage of life will last or when death will happen. Sometimes death comes quickly. Other times the dying process takes ...