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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, across the country, members of the Los Angeles Pink Dragons, trained in the summer for the annual International Dragon Boat festival in Long Beach, California, held in July, and the 10 th ...

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 ...

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 ...