Cancer patients often lose excessive amounts of weight. This affects up to 80% of patients and is mainly due to a decrease in muscle mass and fatty tissue. This cancer-induced cachexia (CIC) is ...

Tumors can destroy the blood vessels of muscles even when the muscles are nowhere close to the tumor. That is the key finding of a new study that my colleagues and I recently published in the journal ...

Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is cancer that’s only in the inner lining of your bladder. It hasn’t grown into the muscle wall. Your doctor may also call it superficial bladder cancer, urothelial ...

Hearing the words "it's cancer" turned Mia Cassella's world upside down, along with a warning about weight and muscle loss from chemotherapy. The diagnosis was difficult to process, but the ...

NMIBC treatment varies by tumor stage, grade, and prior therapies, with high-risk cases often requiring radical cystectomy. Bladder-preserving approaches include intravesical therapies like BCG, ...

Building muscle depends on several factors and isn't something that'll happen overnight after just one workout.

Bottom line: Patients with localized muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) who received radiation plus the immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) durvalumab (Imfinzi) and tremelimumab (Imjudo) had ...

Six afternoons a week at Nathan Benderson Park, a group of middle-aged-and-older women sporting Lycra shorts, tank tops and powerful shoulder muscles step into a skinny boat with their long paddles.