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 ...

The latest study, titled “A global perspective on coal-fired power plants and burden of lung cancer,” published in the journal Environmental Health, looked at data from 13,581 coal-fired plants in 83 ...

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 ...

What you don’t know and can’t see can cause serious harm. In certain areas of the United States, private industries have created cancer corridors, places where unsuspecting residents breathe air laced ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During chemotherapy, 29% of participants in the cooling group developed at least Grade 2 neuropathy in the frozen-glove hand, compared with 50% in the untreated hand. In the compression group, 24% had ...

Aucatzyl is a type of immunotherapy that reprograms a patient’s own T cells to fight cancer. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy—better known as CAR-T— invol ves removing a sample of a patient’s ...