Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, 39, recounts her emotional struggle with Lyme disease roughly a decade ago. The experience that began with night sweats and flu-like symptoms left her bedridden for ...

As Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson works towards getting most of his 200 tattoos removed, a newly published study is suggesting that tattoo ink exposure may increase one’s risk of lymphoma and ...

Molecular testing is a broad term used to describe multiple different tests that can be used to identify DNA mutations (inherited or spontaneous) or other specific molecules in cancer cells that ...

The negative effects of immunotherapy can be quite severe, so it’s important to inform your physician as soon as you experience any abnormal symptoms. Those who are taking more than one immunotherapy ...

Nicola Shaw, of Manchester, England, was 38 years old she learned that a tingling pain in her face was due to a meningioma tumor in her brain. Now she’s working to spread awareness for the disease and ...

John Johnson, a dad of two from Cleveland, Ohio, was diagnosed with stage 2 colorectal cancer at age 35 after dismissing blood in his stool as hemorrhoids and contributing the unusual symptom to ...

Melanoma is a type of cancer that can form on the surface of your skin, and it’s often caused by exposure to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation. In 2022 alone, experts predict there will be nearly ...

An exciting area of development when it comes to CLL treatment is CAR-T cells or chimeric antigen receptor T-cells. Dr. Matthew Davids, the Associate Director of the Center for CLL at Dana-Farber ...

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A patient’s IGHV mutation status is a key factor in CLL prognosis. Doctors looking for a patient’s IGHV mutation status are looking at the age of the cell that allowed CLL to grow. If it is a younger, ...

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in women and the second leading cause of death behind lung cancer. Thanks in part to widespread education and screening mammograms, a majority of ...

A new study has found a “rising trend” in California men being diagnosed with late-stage prostate cancer, a disease actor Dennis Hopper passed away from, and researchers with the University of ...