Children who have experienced cancer are living longer than ever. Researchers are now able to look at the long-term effects of cancer and cancer therapies. This news is not always welcome.

What's a girl to do when the flow stops and menopause rages? Is she to take hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ), or avoid it all costs because everyone knows it causes breast cancer - right? Not so fast there, lady.

In 2010, the first cancer vaccine - Provenge ( sipuleucel-T ) - was approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to treat metastatic prostate cancer. This type of treatment as spawned an entire new field.

About one in five women has painful swelling following breast cancer surgery. There are currently only limited options for dealing with this condition - lymphedema - but that may be about to change.

Part of the life cycle of a cell - as with every other living thing - is death. Cancer cells have to be pounded by radiation or chemotherapy to die or actually commit suicide. Scientists may have discovered what interferes with that death.

It's a fairly well-known guideline. Start colorectal cancer screenings at age 50. Yet, far too many folks in this age group ignore these recommendations - a decision that can be deadly. Now these guidelines have been updated.

A great deal of attention is being paid to the benefits and harms produced by both screening tests and treatments for various types of cancer. The microscope has been turned on radiation therapy (radiotherapy) being used with older breast cancer patients.

The lowered cost of genetic analysis, increasing use of online databases sharing research, and more powerful computing techniques have resulted in the ability to find complex genetic patterns unimaginable only a decade ago.

Part of the reason head and neck cancers are tough to treat is that the tumors sometimes become resistant to both radiation therapy (radiotherapy) and chemotherapy. A research team in Germany is working to overcome this problem.

BRCA genes aren't the only menacing genes in the breast cancer equation. No, there's a syndicate of criminal molecules that hijack normal DNA repair and create the havoc that is breast cancer. Researchers have nabbed another culprit gene.