Cancer

  1. Health & Medicine

    Why are so many young people getting cancer?

    Diagnoses for several cancers before age 50 have been increasing rapidly since the 1990s. Scientists don’t know why, but they have a few suspects.

    By Fred Schwaller
  2. Health & Medicine

    Cancer patients froze reproductive tissue as kids. Now they’re coming back for it

    Saving reproductive tissue from kids treated for cancer before adolescence could give them a chance at having biological children later in life.

    By Meghan Rosen
  3. Health & Medicine

    Antioxidants may encourage the spread of lung cancer rather than prevent it

    Antioxidants protect lung cancer cells from free radicals, but also spur metastasis, two new studies suggest.