A 60-year-old man with a significant smoking history and breast cancer presented to the emergency department with severe back and left lower extremity pain. Clinical evaluation revealed metastatic ...

Persistent back pain can sometimes be an early sign of lung cancer. Statistics suggest that approximately 25 percent of lung cancer patients experience specific back pain. Back pain cancer symptoms ...

A 22-year-old woman from England was stunned when she was diagnosed with blood cancer after doctors told her that her back pain was related to her new office job, according to PEOPLE. Now, she’s ...

A once “fit and healthy” 25-year-old woman, whose lower back pain was initially misdiagnosed, died from bone cancer less than a year after a tumour was finally discovered in her pelvis. When Kate ...

Young patients often struggle to get early diagnosis of cancer leading to delays and more advanced stages of disease.

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...