Imagine curing a life-threatening tumor by going through someone’s eye. That’s exactly what a team of surgeons did for a 19-year-old woman named Karla Flores — and it wasn’t for eye cancer. They ...

Persistent back pain, often dismissed as muscular, can sometimes signal advanced breast cancer that has spread to the bones.

As a high school teacher and baseball coach, Steve Loutzenhiser is used to an active life, describing himself as “super healthy” and athletic. So he was surprised when a sudden bout of back pain ...

Pinned between the stomach and spine, the pancreas supervises both digestion and blood sugar in the body. It's also the site of an aggressive cancer called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC.