“The best screening test is the one that gets done,” Dr. Nurkin says.

Cancer screenings are an important part of maintaining a healthy life, especially for those who have already been treated for cancer.

“If I could be a little bit of hope and shed some light to someone else to keep going, I want to."

"Even among those cysts that are deemed pre-cancerous, very few of them end up becoming cancerous."

If cancer runs in a family, there may be an inherited factor that increases the risk of younger generations in that family developing cancer.

“We partner with organizations outside the nation or even different departments within each nation in order to do outreach on each territory,” explains Whitney Ann Henry, coordinator for the CICS navigators. “Wherever our community gathers, that’s where we want our navigators to be.”

Roswell Park Comprehensive Care Center’s Lung Cancer Screening Program utilizes a practical metric to help patients assess their smoking history and determine whether they should seek lung cancer screening known as the Pack/Year.

Germ cells are the reproductive cells that develop in humans during earliest gestation.