MedStar Health Blog

When a patient is diagnosed with early-stage colon cancer, we start talking right away about how to keep it from coming back after treatment.  Though thinking that far ahead might seem strange...

Everyone knows someone—a family member, friend, colleague, or neighbor—that has battled breast cancer. In 2021 alone, about 281,000 women will receive an invasive breast cancer diagnosis,...

This blog was written by Charlotte Gamble MD, MPH and Lauren Damle, MD. With over 14 million new infections every year, human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infectio...

A cancer diagnosis can be one of the most difficult things you encounter in your lifetime. For many, a diagnosis can come out of seemingly nowhere. It's normal to feel anxious or overwhelmed by ...

People generally don’t think about their digestive system—until it stops working properly. Then its impacts on daily life quickly become evident. Any type of digestive malfunction can be distressin...

By the end of 2021, approximately 60,000 new cases of endometrial cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. Over 10,000 patients will die from it—and the majority of these people will be Black women. Endo...