cancer

The National Cancer Institute recognizes lung cancer as the leading cause of cancer death. In the United States, lung cancer follows only skin cancer as the most common type of cancer.

Many people don’t realize that lung cancer screening is available.

Like any screening, lung cancer screening aims to find the disease early, when treatment may be more effective. Dr. Greg Welle, director of radiology at Community HealthCare System and Manhattan Radiology, said low-dose...

By Dr. David Cancelada: As I look back over my 30 years as a physician and surgeon, I am amazed at the advancements in medicine and science in the fight against cancer, particularly breast cancer. We are truly a blessed country with the best healthcare available on the planet.  When I began my training back in the 1980s, breast cancer was one of many dreaded cancers that left women severely disabled, disfigured, and with little hope to live more than 5 to 10 years from the time of their diagnosis....

Karen Elliott was not supposed to get breast cancer. She was not genetically predisposed and had only a 3 percent chance. But a routine mammogram in June 2007 found evidence of breast cancer.

Luckily, her cancer had not advanced past her lymph nodes. After a partial mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation, Karen looks back years later and is thankful that she took time for cancer screening.

“If I hadn’t had a mammogram, I don’t know how bad it would have been...