Kidney cancer often causes no symptoms in its early stages. Here are some of the symptoms you can expect as the cancer grows.

These things may raise your risk for kidney cancer: advancing age, smoking, and contact with certain chemicals.

The stage of a cancer is how much and how far the cancer has spread in your body. The stage of a cancer is one of the most important things to know when deciding how to treat the cancer.

Tobacco and alcohol use, sun exposure, and other factors can increase your risk for oral cancer.

Chemotherapy is sometimes used to treat advanced melanomas. But it isn't used as often as it was in the past.

Healthcare providers use different systems to measure the thickness of a melanoma and to stage the disease. These systems summarize the extent of your cancer.

Melanoma can be treated in many ways. Which treatment may work best for you depends on a number of things.

The first symptom of melanoma is often a change in a mole, or the appearance of a new mole. Read on to learn what exactly you should look for.

Knowing the risk factors for melanoma can help you make choices that might lower your risk. For example, sun exposure is a risk factor, and you can protect yourself from the sun.

Details about melanoma, a serious type of skin cancer.