Cancer

Surgery, radiation, chemotherapy – those are the standard treatments for mesothelioma, the ...

Society’s portrayal of a cancer patient often involves hair and weight loss, a gaunt, pale face, and a general look of illness. This image is ...

Potential Anticancer Application for Antibiotics Researchers at Mayo Clinic's campus in Minnesota have revealed that fluoroquinolone antibiotics unexpectedly suppress hypoxia-inducible factor 1-alpha (HIF-1α), a protein involved ...

Inside a cancer cell, locked tightly within spools of genetic text, reside the origins of each malignancy. For some cancers, a few misprints here or ...

In 1988, when counselors greeted the first patient at Mayo Clinic's new Nicotine Dependence Center, attitudes toward smoking were much different. A person could still light ...

For the man who would become one of the world's leading experts on nicotine addiction, and who founded the Nicotine Dependence Center at Mayo Clinic, ...

Survivors of prostate cancer often live in fear of their cancer coming back. Physicians and patients alike know that early detection is crucial for beating prostate ...

When a woman undergoes testing for the most common breast cancer genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, it is usually because she wants to know if she ...

For more than 60 years, Robert Kyle, M.D., has catalogued patient histories, archived blood samples and observed a vast number of people with plasma ...