Latest Cancer News
Who’s Missing From Breast Cancer Trials? Men, Says the F.D.A.
In recent years, health officials have pushed aggressively to include more women in clinical trials of new drugs. Gone is the ban that once excluded women of ...
Updated: 09/09/2019 10:32A
Women With Breast Cancer Protest at Komen NYC Run
For the first time, women living with breast cancer staged a protest at a Komen 'Race for the Cure' fundraiser, which aims to help women with the disease.
Updated: 09/08/2019 03:40P
Amgen drug shrinks lung cancer tumors in half of patients -study
An experimental Amgen Inc drug that targets a specific genetic mutation reduced tumor size in around half of advanced lung cancer patients given the highest ...
Updated: 09/08/2019 03:45A
More targeted, less toxic: The golden future of cancer treatment
New synthetic molecules are up to 24 times more effective at killing cancer cells than a widely-used cancer drug and they're built with resistance-fighting ...
Updated: 09/06/2019 05:36P
Nanotech turns pro-tumor immune cells into cancer-killing triple agents
Dissolving nanoparticles that ferry temporary genetic instructions to immune cells can extend survival, up to twice as long, in mice with ovarian, brain and skin ...
Updated: 09/05/2019 08:40P
Pancreatic cancer is really hard to treat, and this may be why
Pancreatic cancer is nearly impossible to treat. New research now shows this may be because its tumors destroy the surrounding blood vessels that doctors ...
Updated: 09/04/2019 07:00A
Obesity pandemic shifting cancer to younger people
A new study looking at incidence of disease data nationwide from 2000 to 2016 found a shift in obesity-associated cancers (OACs) to younger individuals.
Updated: 09/03/2019 06:27P
Breast cancer treatment could lead to incurable tumors years later
Drugs taken by thousands of breast cancer patients creates deadly “sleeper cells” that may cause incurable tumors years later. Researchers say the hormone...
Updated: 09/03/2019 10:52A
Enzyme known for promoting cancer found to also protect healthy cells
New research reveals a new role for the enzyme telomerase, which scientists thought was turned off in most normal adult cells, except in cancerous tumors ...
Updated: 09/02/2019 07:01P
Presidential Message on National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
Throughout National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, we reaffirm our commitment to bring attention to prostate cancer and to better understand the risk ...
Updated: 09/01/2019 09:53A