Cancer of the appendix (also called appendiceal or appendix cancer) is often overlooked and usually discovered by accident. It has long been thought of as extremely rare, almost a curiosity in medical ...

From left, Dr. Vadim Guschin, Director of Mercy’s heated chemotherapy (HIPEC) program and a member of the Surgical Oncology Department, and Armando Sardi, M.D., Medical Director of The Institute for ...

Appendiceal cancer is a rare disease with no standardized screening guidelines, well-defined risk factors, or consistent tumor classifications—leading to late diagnoses and poor prognoses. Up to one ...

A very rare type of cancer is on a sharp upward trajectory in younger generations, and no one knows why. Recent research in the US reveals that Gen X-ers and Millennials are three to four times more ...

Brian Johnson was told his type of cancer was so rare, doctors in his home state of Oregon only see about three cases per year. As if an appendiceal cancer diagnosis for a middle-aged father wasn’t ...

August marks Appendiceal Cancer Awareness Month. It's a rare form of gastrointestinal cancer with only 3,000 patients in the U.S. diagnosed annually. Jennifer Kveglis reports.

Appendix cancer, also called appendiceal cancer, is when abnormal cells grow and form a tumor in the appendix. Your appendix is a little pouch-like organ attached to the lower right side of your large ...

Clinical outcomes of resected gastrointestinal stromal tumors treated with 3 years of adjuvant imatinib in different genotypes. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2026 ASCO Gastrointestinal ...