Stopping smoking makes cancer treatments more effective, lessens treatment complications, and decreases the chances of cancer returning.
Doctors only diagnose cancer after ruling out other possible causes for symptoms and performing tests to check and double-check the diagnosis. Learn more about these tests.
Neoplasms or tumors can be cancerous or non-cancerous and can grow in any part of the body.
Hodgkin lymphoma is a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system, which is part of the immune system.
A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening blockage in a lung artery that strains the lungs and the right side of the heart, among other symptoms.