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A clinical trial is recruiting volunteers to try to figure out if 3D mammograms are better than standard 2D imaging for catching advanced cancers. The trial includes a large number of Black women who face disparities in breast cancer death rates.

The Lakewood Ranch resident and legendary ESPN basketball broadcaster says he hopes to be back on the air in late November after completing radiotherapy for vocal cord cancer.

The bill would require insurance to cover skin cancer screenings and would bar imposing deductibles, co-payments or other types of cost-sharing requirements on patients.

The Justice Department says the case involved allegations that Florida Cancer Specialists and another oncology company agreed to suppress competition in Lee, Collier and Charlotte counties.

No definitive explanations came from the study, but increases in early onset cancers were likely associated with the increasing rate of obesity as well as changes in environmental exposures

Our medical roundtable examines the latest health headlines, including a drug for postpartum depression, stroke care, a gas station expanding into health care and full body MRIs.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services backed off from a plan that could have curtailed access to a type of surgery known as DIEP flap. Breast cancer patient advocates are relieved.

The first of a new wave of cancer-detection blood tests likely saved Gilbert Milam Jr.’s life. But many cancer researchers, wary of overtesting, argue it’s premature to prescribe the Galleri test widely.

Despite scores of lawsuits by its personnel and high rates of testicular cancer among troops, the military has been slow to investigate a connection to PFAS.

The discovery “is the first from an extensive sampling of active U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile bases to address specific cancer concerns raised by missile community members,” Air Force Global Strike Command said