In our modern world, stress can become a way of life. The American Institute of Stress manages a list of over 50 common symptoms of stress, including jaw clenching, insomnia, chest pain, social withdrawal and hives. Everyone has experienced how stress and its symptoms can interfere during a hectic day.

If you're a woman - or a man - cancer screening guidelines have been all over the place of late. Here comes another refinement in the recommendations for cervical cancer screenings.

When Debbie Adudell learned she had breast cancer a couple of years ago, she remembers, "I couldn't breathe or talk. I was raised Catholic, so I immediately prayed to God for help." "Prayer kept me going throughout the whole process," that included a number of tests, surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. "The whole cancer process has definitely changed my life spiritually," Debbie shared with dailyRx .

Let's face it - a woman's body is mysterious. It bleeds and discharges and cramps and swells and gets exhausted.

It used to be standard practice: a woman stopped having her menstrual cycles and she went on hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ) to relieve symptoms of menopause. That practice was abruptly halted in 2002 when part of a large study - the Women's Health Initiative - was stopped because of a reported link between HRT and increased incidence of breast cancer. Another even larger study in England - the Million Women Study - reached the same conclusions and also announced that HRT increased a postmenopausal woman's risk of developing breast cancer. A recent review is now questioning ...

A cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. More people are living beyond cancer than ever before. That's the great news.

You know what cancer is, and the odds are good that someone you care about has been affected by the disease. But what does cancer do to the body?

You hear the doctor say, "You have prostate cancer." Before the shock of that news wears off, you might be overwhelmed by all your options for treating the most common, non-skin cancer in men.

A great deal of exciting news has been released recently regarding novel drug combinations that extend the lives of patients living with advanced breast cancers. 

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month. For many scientists, the future of lung cancer treatments lies within the tissue of the patients.