The New York City Legionnaires' disease outbreak has killed five and sickened 82, but doctors say key prevention steps can ...

Learn how Legionella bacteria invade the lungs and cause pneumonia, respiratory failure, and other life-threatening ...

There’s a stigma that if you get lung cancer, you deserve it because you likely smoke. And that hurts patients from diagnosis ...

Researchers have made important strides in understanding and treating diffuse midline gliomas, which were long seen as a ...

These cancers are responsible for the most deaths.

Cancer survival rates in the U.S. are the highest they’ve been since the 1970s. In 1970, only half of patients lived past five years. Now, at least 70 percent of U.S. cancer patients are surviving for ...

It is not unusual for advanced prostate cancer to become resistant to treatment. Of these resistant cases, some progress to a specific form of the disease, which is particularly aggressive and deadly.

Researchers have identified the origin of ovarian cancer that develops in the fallopian tube, which opens doors to discovering new methods for diagnosing the disease and potential therapies. The ...

Glioblastoma is a devastatingly effective brain cancer. Doctors can cut it out or blast it with radiation, but that only buys time. The cancer has an insidious ability to hide enough tumor cells in ...

A novel pill helped people with advanced pancreatic cancer live longer, researchers reported Sunday, raising hopes of long-needed better treatments for one of the deadliest types of cancer. “While not ...