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June 04, 2025Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosis affecting men in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. While every man’s risk of prostate cancer is different,...
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June 04, 2025
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosis affecting men in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. While every man’s risk of prostate cancer is different,...
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November 27, 2024By MedStar Georgetown Cancer Institute at MedStar Health
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death, but innovative treatments offer more hope to patients with the disease than ever before. This is especially true for patients with lung cancer in ear...
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October 23, 2024Hip and knee replacements are lasting longer than ever, which means many patients are electing to undergo hip or knee replacement surgery at younger ages. As a result, men and women are able to remai...
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March 29, 2024
People in the U.S. will be treated to a spectacular show in the sky on April 8, 2024: a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse happens when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, blocking the s...
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February 28, 2024
By Priyanka Kanth, MD, Director, GI Cancer Prevention Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
In the late 1990s Colorectal cancer (CRC) was the fourth leading cause of cancer death in people under age 50, but cases are on the rise. Now, it’s the leading cause of cancer death in men, and secon...
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February 09, 2024
In 2023, stomach cancer, also called gastric cancer, accounted for about 1.4% of newly diagnosed cancer cases in the U.S., with an estimated 26,500 new cases diagnosed. Globally, it represents the 5t...
