Health disruptors are introducing new ways to screen for cervical cancer that skip the speculum entirely. And Teal's the ...

While the Pap was invented in the 1940s and involves inspecting cervical cells for precancerous or cancerous shifts, in the ...

The UC Santa Cruz Colligan Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory (CCDL) has received its CLIA certificate of registration from the California Department of Public Health, which clears the way for it to begin ...

PSA stands for prostate-specific antigen, a substance naturally produced in prostate tissue. A small amount of PSA regularly sneaks into the bloodstream, and low blood concentration is considered ...

When Christy Fennewald was 36, she felt a lump in one of her breasts, but a diagnostic ultrasound didn't pick up that it was suspicious. Nine months later, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and ...

The FDA has approved a novel diagnostic for prostate cancer that looks to improve upon the common screener for prostate-specific antigen, known as a PSA test. The IsoPSA blood test, developed by ...

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends colorectal cancer screening for all adults starting at age 45. After age 75, the task force recommends talking with your health care team to decide ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...

Cancer’s genetic fingerprints may lurk in people’s blood long before they find out about the disease. It’s possible to spot tumor DNA more than three years before a person is diagnosed with cancer, ...

Researchers have created tiny metal-based particles that push cancer cells over the edge while leaving healthy cells mostly unharmed. The particles work by increasing internal stress in cancer cells ...