Last month was breast cancer awareness month. It was difficult to go anywhere without seeing pink ribbons and hearing that 40,000 women die each year from breast cancer.

More than half of men with low-risk prostate cancer are overtreated with surgery or radiation therapy, a University of Michigan study shows. David C. Miller, M.D., MPH, and colleagues looked at ...

More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe.

It is hard to imagine that the second leading cause of cancer deaths in U.S. men is in the midst of a wait-and-see approach treatment controversy. However, whether to treat prostate cancer is ...

Study: Prostate Cancer May Be Overtreated A popular blood test for prostate cancer is leading many men to get treated for cancer when the treatment might not make much of a difference, ...

How effective is your medicine? If you are like most of us, you have no idea. What's worse, neither does your doctor. Food and Drug Administration approval is a little misleading. Although the law ...

Increasing percentages of some older U.S. men with intermediate-risk and high-risk prostate cancers are undergoing treatments that carry risks of side effects that can significantly reduce the ...

The study from Daskivich and team included 243,928 men (mean age 66.6) in the VA health system who received a diagnosis of ...

In Britain, state-funded program offers mammograms Scientists: Program saves 1,300 each year 1% get unnecessary treatment, researchers say LONDON (AP) — Breast cancer screening for women over 50 ...

may be overtreated, researcher Daniel Barocas, MD, of New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, tells WebMD. The study looked at 1,886 men with prostate cancer.

WASHINGTON -- More medical care won't necessarily make you healthier - it may make you sicker. It's an idea that technology-loving Americans find hard to believe. Anywhere from one-fifth to nearly ...