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 ...

Cancer develops when cells grow out of control. Esophageal cancer affects the esophagus, the swallowing tube that connects the throat to the stomach, or the gastroesophageal junction, where the ...

In 1996, former professional road racing cyclist and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, who became a disgraced champion for using performance-enhancing drugs, was diagnosed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If this is the first time you’ve heard about the financial reality of cancer, I hope you won’t turn away. I know it’s hard to wrap your head around and heartbreaking to witness—but if families have to ...

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 ...

Overall, people who used GLP-1 agonists had a 7% lower risk of developing obesity-related cancers than those who used DPP-4 inhibitors. The effect was more pronounced for women, who had an 8% lower ...

Moderna and BioNTech are currently conducting clinical trials of therapies that use mRNA technology to treat cancer. The preliminary results are promising. One BioNTech cancer vaccine shrank tumors in ...

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