Staging is the process of finding out how much cancer is in a person’s body and where it’s located. It’s how the doctor determines the stage of a person’s cancer.

For most types of cancer, doctors use staging information to help plan treatment and to predict a...

Genetic testing is a hot topic and can be used to learn about inherited cancer risk. (This is called predictive genetic testing.) But there are many things to think about before you do it. If you have any indications that suggest you might benefit from testing (such as...