A man in Spain who feared he had brain cancer turned out to have something else in his head: tapeworms, Gizmodo reports. The ...

They originally believed their patient had brain cancer, only to later discover he actually had worms inside his head. The ...

When cysticerci enter a person’s central nervous system, it’s a disease called neurocysticercosis (NCC), which is the ...

Doctors suspected metastatic brain cancer in a 60-year-old man, but scans revealed pork tapeworm larvae causing ...

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

He’s now painted 40 portraits of the people who cared for and supported him through his illness, including many of his Sutter ...

Adolescent and early young adult (AeYA) cancer survivors (aged 15–25 years) face elevated risks of depression following remission. Emerging evidence suggests that brain metabolic vulnerability, ...

Alex from Shrewsbury missed a year of school to undergo cancer treatment.