QUAKERTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) -- Fighting cancer means more than killing tumors. Doctors also try to protect other organs in the body. For the heart, that's spawned a growing medical field: cardio-oncology.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Long-time smokers and former smokers are eligible to be screened every year for lung cancer. But Temple Health says adding a simple test could tell doctors so much more.

When someone is diagnosed with breast cancer, their main concern is beating the disease. But at Fox Chase Cancer Center, doctors take a team-based approach to ensure that life-saving treatments don’t ...

Zipporah Washington was in a nursing program last winter when she began experiencing stabbing pains in her chest and breathing difficulties. At first, doctors thought Washington had a cyst in her ...

Philadelphia-based Temple Health’s Fox Chase Cancer Center appointed David Weinberg, MD, as vice president and physician lead of the cancer screening and prevention service line and associate director ...

Philadelphia-based Temple University Health System announced that Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia is officially part of the health system as of July 1. Temple University Health System and Fox ...

Johnathan Whetstine's lab at Temple's Fox Chase Cancer Center is working on groundbreaking research on how DNA impacts cancer cells to resist treatment. It's research that he hopes will eventually ...