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While the summer months are the perfect time for outdoor activities with friends and family, it is crucial to protect yourself from skin cancer.

Anne Llewellyn knows how to be a good nurse. For nearly 40 years, she took care of others in the Emergency Department and Respiratory Intensive Care. Her perspective of the health care industry changed a bit after she became the patient. Diagnosed with a central nervous system brain tumor in November 2014, Llewellyn had to become her own advocate, along with the help of her husband.

Breast cancer can be hereditary but family members shouldn't expect it to be part of their lives. Routine mammograms can be the best preventative for early detection.

When the emotions of cancer start to get you down, try taking a chance on talking to a four-legged furry friend.

I'd seen pathetic belongings before, but this was ridiculous...

Support Groups are a wonderful source of information and support, but the timing when a survivor joins can make all the difference.

Promising clinical activity and acceptable safety was shown when the PD-1 inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) was given with the HDAC inhibitor entinostat for patients with melanoma who were refractory to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

The future of treating ovarian cancer may lie in combinations of immunotherapy plus PARP inhibitors, says Samir N. Khleif, M.D.

Having cancer is very much like being in a foreign country.

When I had breast cancer in 2012, Mom showed her loved through food.

There are times in the cancer journey when it's hard to sustain faith.

A cancer survivor describes the use of diet, exercise and natural products to help boost her immune system.

When it comes to active surveillance and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for localized prostate cancer, the paradigm has been shifting and the debate over which is correct has been raging on in recent years, says Andrew Stephenson, M.D.

For patients with cisplatin-ineligible advanced urothelial cancer, frontline treatment with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) showed long-lasting response, according to updated phase 2 results from the KEYNOTE-052 trial.

5 things you can do right now to help you reduce anxiety from cancer.

Long-term survival can mean serious biological changes.

Cancer means all kind of losses and demands that we live in the present.

When receiving a cancer diagnosis, more often than not, all relationships are impacted.

Just because Senate leaders say it's a good health care plan, is it really?

Len Lichtenfeld, M.D., Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the American Cancer Society answers the question, “What is the best anti-cancer diet?”

The rate of patients with lung cancer who commit suicide is higher than those with other types of tumors. A recent study examined why.

Over the years, stem cell transplantation has drastically evolved, not only moving into different types of hematologic malignancies, but also into patient populations of different ethnicities, says Tsiporah B. Shore, M.D.

A recent study examined how age plays a factor in cancer risk for women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation.

Tips for a renewed commitment to a healthy life for balance, focus and perspective.

Three times medical professionals were just plain wrong.

What happens when you get "used" to having late-stage cancer?

Whenever I exercise, I seem not to know what I am doing. Is it lack of coordination or is it too much attention to movement?

The combination of Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib) gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with BRAF V600–positive advanced or metastatic non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Rituxan Hycela (rituximab) was granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for adult patients with previously untreated and relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma, previously untreated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) and previously untreated and previously treated chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

This morning, Senate Republican leaders released the draft of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).