The suffering can be devastating. About seven percent of people with brain cancer have headaches, confusion, seizures and other neurological problems that a new therapy may relieve.

Leukemia begins in the bone marrow. Medications can treat most forms of this cancer, but drugs don't work for everyone. Scientists are trying to find new answers – and hope.

The miseries of chemotherapy - such as nausea, hair loss and weakness - may soon be a thing of the past. A new technology being studied may minimize these toxic side effects.

Patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are at risk for low bone density and osteoporosis. New information shows that promptly addressing bone health in these patients is necessary.

The most common form of cancer in women may soon be detected using a test that diagnoses the most common type of cancer in men. The PSA test may soon be used to detect breast cancer.

Indirubin is the active ingredient in a Chinese herbal remedy known as Dang Gui Long Hui Wan. Studies find the herb may help treat glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

In the film, Arsenic and Old Lace , Cary Grant learns his aunt is a homicidal maniac. Scientists have discovered that arsenic may have a poisonous link to another killer - kidney cancer.

Chronic myeloid leukemia ( CML ) results when the growth of white blood cells goes berserk and too many are produced in the bone marrow. A new method to treat this disease is being studied.

The Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee ( ODAC ) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted unanimously to recommend that the FDA grant accelerated approval of Adcetris ( brentuximab vedotin ).

Cathy, the heroine on The Big C should know about this. As a stage IV melanoma patient, she could use a free online tool to find the best treatment options for her individual case.