If you are monitoring your prostate specific antigen (PSA) level to screen or monitor prostate cancer, you might want to avoid having a beer — or glass of wine or other alcohol — before the next test.

When it comes to the risk of developing breast cancer, the use of synthetic estrogen by women experiencing menopause — especially for women who have already been treated for the disease — has been controversial for many years.   

You can! In the world of body parts, the appendix is a curious outlier. It’s basically a small pouch of tissue attached to the large intestine, but with an unknown function.

The most common lumps and bumps that appear in soft tissues are lipomas. Made of fat cells, lipomas rarely change in size, are easy to move around and are not cancer.