A group of experts advising the nation’s premier cancer-research institution has recommended changing the very definition of cancer and eliminating the word entirely from some common diagnoses as part ...

A new definition of rectal cancer in the Netherlands prompted reclassification of cancer as sigmoid tumors, which could lead to better treatment. Rectal and sigmoidal tumors have been hard to ...

Mouth cancer is a type of head and neck cancer, and it often comes under the category of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. Oral cancer accounts for roughly 3% of all cancer diagnoses in the United States ...

Defining cure in stage II and III colon cancer has been challenging, and has never been systematically studied. In an analysis of 15 randomized trials, colon cancer relapse risk fell to 0.5% by year 6 ...