Here's a growing list of the approved hormone therapies, immunotherapies and targeted therapies for treating cancer. Click on any of the drugs for more info on dosing, side effects and drug ...

While new cancer diagnoses have decreased overall since the 1990s, increases in obesity-related cancers are likely slowing this progress, according to the CDC. About two thirds of U.S. adults and ...

The Biden Initiative had begun to make progress toward those goals before it closed its doors for good. It created the Oncology Clinical Trial Information Commons, a collaboration among nine ...

The researchers then looked at how lifestyle factors—especially diet—affect the gut microbiome and how this might in turn influence treatment response. They collected fecal samples from 113 melanoma ...

My PSA was 3.95 ng/mL, and my internist was growing jittery. So he referred me to a urologist, who conducted a needle biopsy during which he poked my anesthetized prostate 14 times to remove tiny ...

Sometimes life can be a precarious balancing act. This balance can be disrupted in any number of ways – including the loss of a job or a divorce or a cancer diagnosis. Traumas like this can lead to ...

When you picture someone with Stage IV lung cancer, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s likely to be a frail-looking older man or woman with thinning hair tethered to an oxygen tank and moving ...

Congress has pressured the Defense Department to clean up U.S. military sites and take health concerns more seriously. Under the fiscal 2023 James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act, the ...

Many men will have options for fathering children after cancer treatment. These may include banking sperm and freezing testicular tissue prior to treatment. Saving testicular tissue can potentially ...

Comparing the two data sets, the researchers found that oropharyngeal cancer risk was positively correlated with a younger age at the time of first oral sex, having oral contact the first time they ...

Cancer vaccines are not a new idea, but they fell out of favor after disappointing results in early studies. Now, a better understanding of how cancer develops and how the immune system responds to it ...

The site asks about an individual’s age and sex and for details about their cancer diagnosis, including the cancer’s stage and grade, time since diagnosis and particular details about the tumors. The ...