Cancer Medical Reference

Immunotherapy uses your body's immune system to treat cancer. If this treatment doesn't work or it stops working, you have other options.

Discover the pros and cons of immunotherapy in fighting cancer. Learn how this treatment strengthens your immunity, improves survival rates and targets cancer cells

Immunotherapy is one treatment your doctor can use to stop your cancer. Learn how it works and if you’re a good candidate.

Here are some questions you may want to ask your doctor about this form of cancer treatment.

Cancer and its treatment can cause symptoms and side effects. Palliative care offers relief from pain and discomfort when you have a serious illness.

Combining immunotherapies with other types of cancer treatments may work better than individual therapies alone. Learn the latest advances in immunotherapy combinations.

Immunotherapy is an umbrella term for cancer treatments that harness your own immune system. Learn how different types of immunotherapy work.

Hundreds of cancer immunotherapy drugs are being tested in clinical trials. You may be able to join one. Get the facts on cancer immunotherapy clinical trials.

An adrenal gland adenoma is a tumor on your adrenal gland that isn’t cancer, but can still cause problems. Learn what causes them, how to know if you might have one, and how they’re treated.

Learn why thinking problems called chemo brain can sometimes affect you after chemotherapy, and find out how you can keep it under control.

Learn about the signs that you may have some long-term side effects of chemotherapy.

Learn why you can take some chemo drugs as pills or skin creams, and other surprising facts about chemotherapy.

Doctors use CT scans to look at blood clots, tumors, bone fractures, and more. Learn how this test works, as well as its benefits and risks.

What are your options when immunotherapy no longer helps your metastatic melanoma?

What you and your doctor can think about before you decide to try this cancer treatment.

A few immunotherapy drugs can help people with this type of advanced cancer.

If you have advanced kidney cancer, also known as metastatic renal cell carcinoma, your doctor may suggest you try immunotherapy. It helps some people with the disease live longer.

After a while, immunotherapy for kidney cancer can stop working. What can you do next? Here are some options.

Learn about the different types of immunotherapy used to treat metastatic melanoma.

What Is Small Intestine Cancer? WebMD explains the causes, symptoms, and treatments for this rare condition.

Primary liver cancer affects more men than women and is usually found in people with chronic liver disease. Learn the types, symptoms, tests, and treatments.

Vaginal cancer happens when malignant (cancerous) cells form in your vagina. Learn more about the types, symptoms, causes, risk factors, stages, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of vaginal cancer.

Urethral cancer affects the tube that carries urine from your bladder to outside your body. Symptoms may include a lump in the groin and difficulty peeing.

What are the symptoms of laryngeal cancer -- and are you at risk? Learn more about the most common type of head and neck cancer, as well as treatment options.

Vulvar cancer is a rare condition where abnormal cells form on the outer part of the female genitals. WebMD explains the symptoms, as well as how it’s diagnosed and treated.

Learn about the tumors that can grow on the spinal cord. Find out which ones are cancer, and what symptoms they can cause.

If you or someone in your household has ever worked around asbestos, you could be at risk for malignant mesothelioma. WebMD explains what causes this common cancer and how it’s treated.

Ewing’s sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that affects mostly children and teenagers. It has a high cure rate if the tumor has not spread a lot.

The stage of thyroid cancer is, like other cancers, is determined in order to help you with treatment decisions and to help you better understand what to expect. The staging system is complicated, but your doctors will explain it to you.

Find out what happens when high-energy radiation goes through your body and reaches your internal organs.

Chordoma is a rare cancer that affects bones in the spine and skull. Find out what causes this cancer, and why it can be tricky to treat.

One of the main parts of thyroid cancer treatment is removing all or part of the thyroid gland. Although the surgery is usually safe, there are risks like bleeding, damage to the nerves controlling the vocal cords, or damage to the parathyroid glands.

In most cases, thyroid cancer can be cured. But some people may experience side effects from treatment. The good news: There are effective ways to deal with those side effects.

If it’s caught early and treated, thyroid cancer can be one of the most curable forms of cancer.

There’s no routine screening for thyroid cancer, like prostate and breast cancer, for example. But doctors do have a number of tests they can use to diagnose and monitor thyroid cancer.

The symptoms of thyroid cancer may include a lump or swelling in the neck, pain, fatigue, voice changes, swallowing issues and more. Learn about the signs to watch for.

You’ve just been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. What you need to know about treatment.

Learn why you need a bone biopsy and what happens during the test.

Learn how the CEA test works and find out how it can help your doctor monitor your cancer treatment.

Bowen’s disease is a form of skin cancer that affects the upper layer of your skin. Some cases have been linked to HPV infection.

Find out about this type of cancer, including how to find and treat it.

Find out the causes, symptoms, and treatment of this rare form of cancer that usually starts in your saliva glands.

A red, itchy rash that won't go away -- is it just skin deep or something more? Learn about the rare condition called mycosis fungoides.

A prolactinoma, a type of pituitary gland tumor, can cause missed periods, low sex drive, vision problems, and more. Here's what you need to know.

Learn about this rare type of cancer. Find out what causes leiomyosarcoma and how it's treated.

Ameloblastoma is a rare tumor that starts in the jaw. It is not usually cancerous, but it can spread to other parts of the face and can cause swelling and pain if not diagnosed and treated.

You feel a lump in your testicles. Could it be cancer? Here’s how to find out.

After you’ve had surgery for testicular cancer, you may have a host of questions. And probably first up: How will this affect my sex life? Can I father children?

Doctors don't know for sure why a man may get testicular cancer. But they have been able to find some links to other conditions.

You almost certainly will need surgery if you have testicular cancer. Find out what’s involved with this highly treatable condition.