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The answer to how physicians might be able to predict the growth of patient’s prostate cancer could lie in the person’s DNA, according to a report released Monday by a research team that included experts at UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Cutting-edge research is revealing new ways to potentially prevent violent acts, including mass shootings, years before the thought of violence ever crosses the minds of murderers. A study of roughly 1,000 prisoners revealed across-the-board brain abnormalities in those who committed homicide, leading researchers to believe such behavior, if identified early enough, can be quashed with therapy and medication.

The 78-year-old TV personality tells People magazine he’s responding very well to chemotherapy and the doctors have told him “they hadn’t seen this kind of positive results in their memory.” Trebek says some of the tumors have shrunk by more than 50%.

A man from Downey received the shocking news that what he thought to be fat, was actually a giant 77-pound cancerous tumor.

Popular sparkling water company LaCroix is facing a lawsuit that alleges its products are mislabeled as “all-natural,” and the allegations are weighing on the shares of its parent company National Beverage. The lawsuit, filed in a Cook County, Illinois, circuit court, claims that LaCroix contains ethyl butanoate, limonene, linalool and linalool propionate — ingredients it says are non-natural and synthetic...

Scientists explain treatments for brain cancer and discuss glioblastoma, the brain cancer that took John McCain’s life. Christine Kim reports for NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Aug. 26, 2018.

Danbury Hospital removed a 132-pound ovarian tumor from a woman and said she is home and is expected to make a full recovery.

A New Jersey man was so bothered by his growing gut — something friends, family and even doctors dismissed as a natural “beer belly” — that he persisted in getting it checked out, and eventually made the shocking discovery of what was actually in his stomach.

Researchers at UT Southwestern say they’ve found the root cause of why our hair turns gray and there may be a way to reverse it. They may have also found the secret to stopping hair loss.

Researchers have taken an important step toward better lung cancer treatment by using blood tests to track genetic changes in tumors as they progress from their very earliest stages. With experimental tests that detect bits of DNA that tumors shed into the blood, they were able to detect some recurrences of cancer up to a year before imaging scans could,...