If you want to make a baby, you need a sperm and a mature egg. Until recently, scientists haven't known how to grow eggs to maturity on their own. But now they have an idea.

Right now, there are only a handful of  drugs that are approved to treat advanced renal cell carcinoma – a type of kidney cancer. Phase 3 clinical trial results of another drug suggest kidney cancer patients may soon have a new option.

If you’ve ever had shingles, you know what a painful ordeal it can be. Tiny blistering sores can take over your body, usually just on one side though. Having this condition doesn’t increase risks of more serious disease.

Denosumab – sold under the brand names of Prolia for the treatment of osteoporosis and Xgeva for fracture prevention in patients with metastatic cancers to the bone – may be effective in treating people with a condition known as giant-cell tumor of the bone.

Past studies have suggested there is a link between Parkinson’s disease (PD) and cancer. A shared genetic predisposition is not only important for the patient, but also could have an affect on their relatives.

People who don’t smoke shouldn’t die from smoke, but it happens everyday. Secondhand smoke exposure is an unnecessary risk that takes over 40,000 lives per year.

If you’re familiar with Debra Winger, you may know she’s died from cancer at least a couple times – in her movies Terms of Endearment and Shadowlands . While cancer can make for heart-wrenching drama, such bleak portrayals of the disease are far from the truth.

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive. Combination chemotherapy has been the treatment mainstay for advanced disease. Now this approach is being questioned.

Current approaches to cervical cancer are focused on early detection. But screening methods may not be available to everyone. Targeting cancer causing protein research is gaining ground.

People living with colorectal cancer that has spread to other areas of the body now have a new therapy option. Unlike so many late-stage cancer treatments, this isn’t an intravenous drug - rather, a tablet.