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Radiation therapy might not be necessary for treating some forms of rectal cancer and lymphoma, sparing patients from the toxic treatment, a pair of new clinical trials show.
One trial found that rectal cancer patients whose tumors shrink in response to chemotherapy can safely skip the radiation therapy that’s normally provided prior to surgery, researchers reported at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual...

As a teenager, basketball was everything to Danica Collins—her friends, her outlet, and her identity. She played year-round with a solid team, and her social life revolved around sports and school. Her life-changing Type 1 diabetes diagnosis came unexpectedly...

I often joke with my male cousins about “guy code”—the unspoken yet universally understood rules that guide their communication, actions, and reactions to one another. Even how men complement each other is strictly enforced by such rules. To veer outside...

Congestive heart failure is a scary diagnosis nobody wants to hear, but what is the condition, and how do you manage it?
Plenty of people are affected: Roughly 5.7 million Americans are living with congestive heart failure, with 670,000 new cases diagnosed each year, according to the American Heart Association (AHA)....