MedStar Health Blog

Beauty influencer Jessica Pettway died in 2024 at age 36 from cervical cancer—a highly preventable and treatable disease when caught early. Pettway said she had been misdiagnosed as having uter...

Colon cancer remains the third-leading cause of deaths related to cancer in the United States. While the death rate is dropping for older adults since the advent of screening, the disease is killing ...

I was only 47 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I had normal mammograms up to that point, which is what made the discovery all the more surprising. But after feeling two lumps in my breast, I ...

March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, a month dedicated to raising awareness of the fourth most common cancer diagnoses in the United States. This year alone, approximately 153,000 people will ...

Your appendix is a part of the digestive tract that most people only think about if it acts up with appendicitis. Unfortunately, in rare cases, it can also develop cancer—and young Hispanic people ar...

Most people know that fruits and vegetables are good for their bodies, but recent research suggests that the foods and drinks we choose can significantly increase our risk for colorectal cancer....