After exposure to measles, you should postpone your cancer care appointments until you know you haven’t developed it. If you ...

Our Peer Review Committee scientists embrace the central ACS tenet that peer review not only helps us fund the most impactful cancer research, but also serves to make the applicants better scientists.

The American Cancer Society couldn't do what we do without the support of our partners. Learn more about how these partnerships support our efforts to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Each ...

Radiation therapy to the pelvis can cause sexual problems for many women with cancer. These problems can be temporary or last long-term after treatment has finished. Radiation to other body parts, ...

The National HPV Vaccination Roundtable, established by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2014, is a national coalition of public ...

What you eat and drink can impact your health in a big way. In fact, getting to and staying at a healthy weight, eating a balanced diet, and avoiding or limiting alcohol are 3 of the best ways to help ...

Pancreatic cancer is on the rise in the United States, but there's another, less common type called pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNET). It's important to know the difference, because these two ...

A neoplasm is an abnormal growth of cells in the body. It happens when the body’s normal process of making and replacing cells doesn’t work as it should. When a neoplasm forms into an abnormal growth, ...

Precancerous cells, also called premalignant cells, are abnormal cells that have changes in how they look or grow. The cells are not cancer, but they show changes that raise the risk of turning into ...

If polyps were found and removed during your colonoscopy, you might be worried about what that means for your colorectal cancer risk. Most colorectal cancers start as polyps, which are small growths ...

Diagnosed with colorectal cancer at just 29, Chris Lopez was the youngest patient his oncologist had ever treated. Now in remission, he’s turning his experience into a mission: raising awareness, ...