Laura Beil

Reducing your risk of prostate cancer.

A guide to potential side effects of prostate cancer treatment.

How to deal with sexual dysfunction after prostate cancer.

Are supplements and nutraceuticals during cancer treatment helpful or all hype?

Cancer patients and survivors should discuss supplement and vitamin use with their oncologists.

Cancer patients and survivors should discuss supplement and vitamin use with their oncologists.

Prostate cancer screening

Advance care planning can clarify expectations for cancer patients.

Sometimes, when death is near, the easiest person to talk to is not the one caring for the body, but the spirit.

The nation's publicly funded clinical trials system may not have been broken, but it did just get some long-overdue repairs.

Sentinel node biopsy reduces complications of breast surgery.

New health care law may help cancer patients control costs & gain access to clinical trials.

Everyone wants great health care, but questions of cost must be addressed, experts say.

Cancer advocates are working to make the process of finding and understanding trials less intimidating.

Why aren't cancer patients participating in clinical trials?

Even if your doctor hasn’t mentioned the possibility of a clinical trial or getting treatment through a clinical trial, you still may be eligible for a study.

Developing an exercise plan, including what motivates you, is a key to get moving and stay moving.

Finding an exercise routine you enjoy makes sticking to it easier.

Two studies presented in December at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium offer hope of enhancing both the effectiveness and safety of Herceptin (trastuzumab), the drug that helped introduce the era of targeted therapy a decade ago.

When doctors search for cancer inside the body using images from X-rays, radio waves, or echoes of bouncing sound, they are scanning for tumors they can see. But maybe in the future this same technology might help doctors spot tumors that can’t yet be seen, by looking for their footprints in the surrounding tissue.

A tumor's surroundings may reveal the answers to how cancer grows and spreads.

Two recent studies offer hope of enhancing both the effectiveness and safety of Herceptin, the drug that helped introduce the era of targeted therapy.

One of the most visible side effects of chemotherapy is hair loss—a problem so distressing that some patients refuse treatment to avoid going bald.Studies have suggested that cooling the scalp during and immediately after treatment may help reduce hair loss. When the skin is cold, less blood flows to hair follicles, reducing their exposure to the drugs. One product, the Penguin Cold Cap System (manufactured by Medical Specialties of California UK), is billed as preventing hair loss in 80 percent of patients.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer could lower their risk of recurrence by cutting back on alcohol consumption, a new analysis suggests. Obesity itself is known to raise the risk of breast cancer, but a study described Thursday suggests that, after diagnosis, women who are overweight may fare worse than their normal-weight peers.

Studies have shown that Avastin, an angiogenesis inhibitor, has delayed disease progression in breast cancer patients, but a survival benefit has yet to be seen.

Consistent with previous research, data presented Friday has found that a woman diagnosed with breast cancer is more likely to undergo mastectomy of the healthy breast, called prophylactic mastectomy, if she has an MRI and biopsy of that breast during treatment of the cancerous breast

Studies have suggested that MRI, along with mammography, is the best means of detecting breast cancer earlier among high-risk women.

For ER-positive breast cancer, researchers look to find which drugs work best, how they should be sequenced, and how long they should be taken.

New research highlights drawbacks of tests aimed at early detection.

One organization strives to improve cancer screening.