Some cancers are gender specific. Women face ovarian, cervical and uterine cancer and men don’t. Most people fail to realize that breast cancer affects men as well as women, only it’s not as common among men. The American Cancer Society predicts that in 2018, about 2,550 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in
Obesity is linked to prostate cancer, scientists know, but it’s not clear why. On Monday, researchers reported a surprising connection. When prostate cancers lose a particular gene, they become tiny fat factories, a team at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston reported in a paper published in Nature Genetics. Then the cancers spread from
The most common type of cancer to affect both men and women is skin cancer. The second most common type of cancer that affects men will hit about 1 of every 7 men in the United States and about 60% of those cases will be diagnosed in men 60-years and older. The average of being
