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This guide to cervical cancer will help women better understand this disease, know their risk, and learn the treatment options.

Pervasive and particularly deadly, lung cancer has remained intractable even as other cancers have yielded more readily to treatment advances. But science is steadily shedding light on therapeutic approaches that may begin to turn the odds of beating the disease in lung cancer patients’ favor.

Genetic testing in 2014 at the Simmons Cancer Center revealed that a 50-year-old had a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, meaning she had a higher risk for breast and ovarian cancer.

Assaults on KRAS. Researchers are finding new ways to neutralize the impact of the KRAS gene mutation, a notorious molecular villain in lung as well as other cancers.

Select cancer clinical trials that are open and seeking participants.

Anyone over age 50 or who has had a close relative diagnosed with colon cancer should get a colonoscopy. It may not be as bad as you think, and the potential benefits are off the charts.

Are we winning the war against cancer? A UT Southwestern physician explains advancements in cancer treatments and other positive signs of success in the fight against cancer.

Important advances over the next decade will help Simmons Cancer Center realize the power and the promise of precision medicine for North Texas cancer patients.

It's easier to cure breast cancer if we catch it early. Find out how the doctors at UT Southwestern screen for breast cancer, including 3-D mammograms.

Recently, Angelina Jolie informed the world through two New York Times opinion articles that she had her breasts and ovaries removed after learning she had a BRCA1 mutation.