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April is esophageal cancer awareness month.  Screening isn’t common for this cancer, so experts say it’s important to watch for symptoms, which can mimic heartburn.

Country star Toby Keith is one of about 26,000 people diagnosed every year with stomach cancer. Experts say if you notice anything out of the ordinary, let your doctor know right away. 

Women – specifically those 80 and up – may be unaware of stroke risk factors that greatly impact them.

Radiation treatment for cancer has come a long way, making things safer and more convenient.

During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, experts are reframing the thinking about treatment of the disease: it doesn’t have to mean loss of your breasts.

To mark World Lung Cancer Day on August 1, health care providers are talking about risks and who should get screened.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and that has many thinking about the disease that afflicts hundreds of thousands in the United States each year.

It can be an embarrassing ailment, but experts say it’s time to talk about urinary incontinence.

From chemotherapy to radiation therapy, cancer care is complex, and technology and science are constantly trying to keep up to make things easier for the patient.At the OSF Bobette Steely Hegeler Cancer Care Center in Danville, Illinois, top-of-the …

Like many of us, Kelli Ballard, a Washington, Illinois, school administrator was hoping after a tumultuous 2020, that 2021 would be a better year. It didn’t quite turn out that way. In January  of last year, just as the new school semester was …

Patients of OSF Bobette Steely Hegeler Cancer Care Center at OSF HealthCare Sacred Heart Medical Center in Danville now have access to quicker and more precise radiation treatment.After a months-long process to get the technology installed, the …