The longer medicine's war with prostate cancer drags on, the smarter the enemy is becoming. Like any nemesis worthy of the name, prostate cancer is learning to evolve and adapt defenses against even some of our most powerful weapons.

Physical activity is a known strategy helping to reduce the risk of breast cancer, particularly in postmenopausal women.   It’s common after menopause for women to gain weight often in the abdominal area – belly fat – increasing the risk not only for breast cancer but also type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and other cancers.  Now it looks like women should “feel the burn” even more to reduce their breast cancer risk. 

You know that the days of human travel agents, taxi drivers and switchboard operators are numbered, but you probably thought that that the jobs of highly-skilled pathologists weren't in danger from the coming AI apocalypse.

You might be wrong.

A remarkable 30 percent of breast cancer survivors suffer from insomnia. For these women, lack of sleep may also be a precursor to depression, anxiety and a heightened risk of disease.

To the “traditional” breast cancer risk factors, researcher Sanna Heikkinen from the University of Helsinki and Finnish Cancer Registry would add two more: the use of hormonal contraceptives and hair dyes.

Amino acids are protein's building blocks and give your cells their structure. They also feed cancer. Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute and the University of Glasgow are trying to formulate a diet that will starve cancer but still give you the amino acids you need for your cells to create proteins.

The highest incidences of any kind of cancer have been tracked back to the counties hosting the poorest environments. The biggest impact was exerted by air quality and factors of the “built” environment, e.g., the presence of major highways and the availability of public transit and housing. Water quality and land pollution had no measurable effect on cancer rates.

As the days get longer and the weather warmer that means one thing - more time spent outside in the sun.  Already many of us are venturing outdoors enjoying the warm spring days but there is one thing we must always do before we head outside – put on our sunscreen.  We’ve always known sunscreen use of SPF 30 or higher prevent sunburns but now researchers have proved it can also prevent melanoma, the most common form of cancer in the United States.

Skin cancers - including melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma -- often start as changes to your skin.

Cornell dots, or C dots, named after the university where they were invented, are a specialized type of nanoparticle that have been kicking around around more than a dozen years. 

What your parents did for a living, and where you lived, when you were born not only have an overall effect on your life, but could actually determine what specific types of cancer you will contract.

Because it is so horrible and seemingly random, we have always associated someone coming down with cancer as particularly “bad luck.”

There is no shortage of effective chemotherapeutic drugs available to doctors in the fight against prostate and other cancers. 

Scientists from the United States have made an important step toward eliminating cancer recurrence by combining immunotherapy with chemotherapy.

A recent large study is strongly suggesting that one-quarter to one-third of all cancer cases including up to half of all cancer deaths could be prevented if we all practiced 4 lifestyle changes:

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have shown how a complex mix of plant compounds derived from ancient clinical practice in China works to kill cancer cells.

Anyone who has ever gone through chemotherapy for treating cancer knows how important white blood cell counts (WBCs) are. 

A large study of testicular cancer patients has shown that radiation therapy is a better treatment than chemotherapy for patients with stage IIa disease.

Using new and innovative immune-therapeutic approaches to silence "don't eat me" signaling proteins recognized by specialized cells of the immune system, University of California, Irvine molecular biologists and their colleagues have identified an effective way to combat metastatic melanoma.

A handful of large studies of cancer risk factors have found that working the night shift, as nearly 15 percent of Americans do, boosts the chances of developing cancer.

New research not only tells us why, but is also warning us that our red-haired friendshave a much higher risk for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

Everyone knows about the connection between liver cancer and alcohol consumption. But the association between drinking and cancer of the liver and six other organs is new.

Men, if you have been looking for yet another reason to finally get into shape, try this one: Your obesity may increase your daughter's risk for breast cancer.

Even though esophageal cancer is an uncommon cancer, any signs or symptoms of it should not be ignored as only about 20 percent of patients survive at least 5 years after diagnosis.  

Women may have a new, non-surgical option in the battle against breast cancer.

Sometimes the overwhelming adjustment to being a patient and the uncertainty of your future may make sexual activity the last thing on your question list. 

Recent studies have shown that yoga can help survivors sleep better, feel more energized, and even cut back on sleeping medications.

Eating about an ounce of walnuts a day - equal to 14 walnut halves at 190 calories and 4 gram of protein - appears to keep our colon healthy.