Jeffrey C. Allen is a professor of pediatrics and neurology and the director of the division of neuro-oncology at the New York University Cancer Institute.

A woman with late-stage colon cancer worries that her two young sons may not be able to stay in their family’s Harlem apartment after she dies.

A research coordinator, acupuncturist and chef talks about her work at the Integrative Therapies Program for Children With Cancer at Columbia University Medical Center.

For months, a Brooklyn woman quietly battled cancer without telling her 10-year-old son about her condition.

In 2006, Rev. Forrest Church, who has cancer, was given six months to live. On Sunday, he delivered what may or may not be his last sermon — for the fifth time.

In 1954, Mr. Moore and colleagues published a pioneering study of male patients with cancer of the mouth, connecting the use of chewing tobacco with the disease.

The number of New York City residents 50 and older who have undergone a colonoscopy has risen by about 50 percent in five years, city officials announced on Thursday.

Dr. Murphy’s leadership advanced early work on chemotherapy, especially for childhood cancer, and led to markedly higher survival rates