MedStar Health Blog

When I started at MedStar Health in 2008, only about 20% of patients with lung cancer lived one year after their diagnosis. At that time, treatment was limited to a choice of just four drugs. For mos...

If you recently had a computed tomography (CT) scan that revealed a dark spot, or lung nodule, in your chest, you may be concerned about what that means. A lung nodule is a small area of dense tissu...

More than 200,000 men in the United States are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year, according to the American Cancer Society. Fortunately, this cancer is often very treatable in cancer centers ...

Approximately 480,000 people die from smoking-related diseases every year in the United States. The good news is that it’s never too late to quit, even if you’ve been smoking for a long ti...

A new study is investigating a blood test that can detect many types of cancer—some of which have no routine screenings—earlier, potentially saving lives.   Collaborative research ab...

More thyroid cancers are diagnosed every year—in the U.S., the occurrence of thyroid cancer has tripled in the last 30 years. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a...