“A positive attitude is really important,” says Dr. Zuri Murrell, a colorectal surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. If you have just been diagnosed with cancer, negative feelings are ...

Can you learn to forgive yourself? This video might be one of the most important things we’ve published on SurvivorNet. One of the most important we may ever publish. Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Dr.

Attorney Gary Jensen, 71, is on a mission to educate about esophageal cancer. The father of three and grandfather of eight achieved remission status for the disease in August 2023 after his stage 3 ...

Actor Patrick Dempsey’s mother, first diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1997, battled the disease for 17 years before she passed away. Her cancer journey affected the entire family, of course, a ...

CNN chief correspondent, award-winning anchor, and dad of three, John King has revealed he’s altered his life to better live with multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease he initially chose to keep private.

Gliomas are a type of cancer that start in the brain. They are different from cancers that begin elsewhere in the body and spread to the brain. “Gliomas almost never go outside of the brain,” Dr.

Grade 2 gliomas are still considered low-grade. Surgery is generally the first treatment and in some cases, it can even be curative. Certain patients are considered high-risk for recurrence after ...

When undergoing glioma treatment, you will likely be working with a multidisciplinary team of professionals. This means you may see and be treated by specialists in neurosurgery, medical oncology, ...

A randomized study has produced some hopeful news for colorectal cancer survivors with an unlikely suspect: the commonly used over-the-counter aspirin. “Patients with treated, PI3K-mutated early ...

Wouldn’t you want to be told? It is a well-documented fact that surgery to remove the prostate can actually reduce the size of the penis. The men on the SurvivorNet staff almost blew a gasket when ...

"As someone on the front lines, who sees this every day, I've seen lung cancer caused by marijuana that is incredibly aggressive," says Dr. Raja Flores, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic Surgery ...

A new analysis shows that, among patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer, the benefits of immunotherapy hold true regardless of the presence of a KRAS mutation. A major new ...