cancer

One easy way to be proactive with cancer preventionis to discuss cancer-preventing vaccines with your primary care provider.

Cancer prevention starts with healthy living, including eating healthy, maintaining a healthy weight, and reducing your overall stress.

Images from a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner show the location of the cancer. This type of drug appears to be the best diagnostic tool for staging prostate cancer and determining whether it has metastasized, says Dresser, the chief of nuclear medicine at the Truman VA.

On World Cancer Day, today’s #VeteranOfTheDay is Navy Veteran Missina Schallus, who served as yeoman chief petty officer and survived three cancer bouts.

  VA’s National Oncology Program (NOP) has continued to expand […]

Good for heart and gut health, fiber can reduce the risk of diabetes and some cancers, and aid with weight loss. It is rich in vitamins and minerals.

For more than 28 years, Veteran Norman Blackwell has been fighting cancer. Read how he's connected with his care providers over chemo.

Speak to your VA provider today about how to schedule a cervical cancer screening, your Pap and/or HPV test at your local VA facility.

Plant-based eating is not vegetarian or vegan. It does not exclude any food or food group. VA dietitians are here to explain it all.

VA’s National Oncology Program’s National TeleOncology Program (NTO) recently helped one Veteran with a rare form of blood cancer.

Important breastfeeding advice for Veteran moms. Breastfeeding strengthens your baby’s immune system and lowers their risk of chronic disease.

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Veterans in VA. It accounts for nearly a third of cancer diagnoses. Prostate cancer is often found early and cured with treatments such as surgery or radiation. But some patients’ cancer spreads and becomes life-threatening.