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 ...

For our sixth annual Cancer Health 25, we salute patient advocates for their unwavering efforts to support the cancer community. To be clear, our Cancer Health 25 is not a “best of” list or a “most ...

Don’t believe it? Jamaican music icon Bob Marley was just 36 when he died of an aggressive form of melanoma (acral lentiginous melanoma) known for primarily affecting people of color. What’s more, ...

I found an oncologist at the Mayo Clinic [in Rochester, Minnesota] who specializes in CLL. Initial blood tests suggested a less than 20% chance that I would need treatment in the next five years 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 ...

Radiation therapy refers to the use of targeted radiation in the form of X-rays, gamma rays, electron beams, proton beams or radioactive substances to damage the DNA of rapidly dividing cancer cells, ...

A new study published in the journal Lancet Oncology quantifies that global cancer burden. Researchers with the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) estimated ...

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 ...

Kamath and colleagues from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed nonprofit cancer organizations with more than $5 million in ...

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 ...