Cancer is still the most common cause of death for men in the US ages 60 to 79 and women ages 40 to 79. For all adults combined, cancer is the second most common cause of death (after heart disease).

Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer that affects men. Understanding what it is, who is at risk and how it can be treated is important for staying healthy. The prostate is a small ...

If a person has an "aggressive" prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9, what does that mean? What's the outlook when it comes to survival rate and prognosis. Every cancer survivor is unique, of ...

Cancer survival rates reach new milestone in the U.S.

Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that delivers radiation directly to tumor cells. Few such drugs are approved now, but the ...

Staging means finding out how far prostate cancer has spread in your body. Physicians group prostate cancers into stages I (1) through IV (4), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being ...

On Sunday May 18, the world learned that the 46th President of the United States Joe Biden was diagnosed with an "aggressive form" of prostate cancer that has spread to the bone. According to the USA ...

Former President Joe Biden's office announced Sunday that he has been diagnosed with an "aggressive" form of prostate cancer, which has spread to his bones. But it said the cancer appears to be ...