The Scope Blog

I've seen too many lives changed forever by "the missed chance." Like watching rain clouds gather but forgetting to bring in the clothes from the line — sometimes the simplest oversights have the most significant consequences. Few things break my heart more than discovering a cancer that a thorough screening could have prevented.

Learn how to protect your heart during radiation therapy with this technique.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer worldwide. Protecting yourself from the sun is vital.

Find out the most common skin cancers and how to protect yourself from them.

A cancer diagnosis is life-changing and brings fear, uncertainty and stress for the patient and loved ones. But, with encouraging advancements in treatments, including radiation therapy, there’s also hope for more positive outcomes — improved cure and remission rates, and greater life expectancy and quality of life.

A nearly $6 million investment in Tanner Cancer Care’s Roy Richards, Sr. Cancer Center has enabled us to bring online a powerful new tool to the region to help treat cancer.

Undergoing cancer surgery can be overwhelming. But there are innovative and less-invasive surgery options for some types of cancer available at Tanner.

Hormones regulate many bodily functions. But some fuel certain cancers. Learn how hormone therapy can help make cancer grow more slowly or stop its growth.