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After your first mammogram, your doctor may tell you have dense breasts. But what exactly does that mean? Having dense breasts simply means you have more dense tissue than the fatty tissue.

Cervical cancer is common and relevant today. About 12,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. If caught early, cervical cancer is highly treatable. This makes it...

For women, cervical cancer screenings are a really important part of maintaining whole health. In fact, cervical cancer screenings can prevent cervical cancer by detecting pre-cancerous cells, and...

Though ovarian cancer is the deadliest type to affect a woman’s reproductive system, it doesn’t have to be.

Of the women whose ovarian cancer is spotted early, 92% survive for more than five years...

A person’s lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 23 for men and 1 in 25 for women, making it the third most common cancer diagnosed in American men and women (excluding skin...

People diagnosed with colon cancer have good reason to be optimistic.

Whether it’s because of the similarity in the words themselves, the parts of the body they impact and where they originate, or the dread the “C-word” conjures up in all of us, colon cancer and...

Andrew Waters, MD, is a Board-certified cardiologist and he's here to answer your questions about hypertension.