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Roughly one in five cancer patients benefits from immunotherapy – a treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer.

Roughly one in five cancer patients benefit from immunotherapy—a treatment that harnesses the immune system to fight cancer. Such an approach to beating cancer has seen significant success in lung cancer and melanoma, among others.…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug to treat patients with an advanced form of deadly lung cancer.

Cutting-edge cancer treatments are essentially useless for patients barely clinging to life, a new study shows.

Dr. Matt Kocher was setting up an operating room during his anesthesia fellowship at UPMC Children’s Hospital in Lawrenceville when nurse Alexis Mamros asked if he had ever received anesthesia. He replied that he had, during his cancer…

Johnny Kleker battles cancer and entertains with his trumpet. He helped celebrate the opening of an outpatient center in Huntington Beach.

The bill's sponsors say police will be expected to use "common sense" in enforcing the bill should it become law.

FDA approves Amgen's Imdelltra for treating ES-SCLC, based on response rate and DoR in clinical studies. Approval may depend on further trials.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug to treat patients with an advanced form of deadly lung cancer.

"We’re thrilled about this funding award as it’s going to support more clinical trials in Northern Ireland"

Bengaluru: In a significant move aimed at alleviating the financial burden on cancer patients, the state government has expanded the scope of the ‘Yashaswini Yojana’ to include crucial treatments such as chemotherapy. This initiative has…

The American Gastroenterological Association's (AGA) new evidence-based Clinical Practice Guideline on Endoscopic Eradication Therapy of Barrett's Esophagus and Related Neoplasia, published today in Gastroenterology, establishes updated…

For Skin Cancer Awareness Month, two melanoma patients shared their stories of how they overcame the invasive form of the disease. A dermatologist also revealed prevention tips.

The rate of colorectal cancer screenings more than doubled when patients were given a choice between which type of screening they wanted-;a take-home kit or colonoscopy-;compared to those who were only offered the colonoscopy, according to…

After years of coaching patients on how to navigate cancer treatment, nurse Leah Wilson of Charlotte, North Carolina, was suddenly facing her own battle after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at age 35. But she kept working,…

(MedPage Today) -- The FDA has granted accelerated approval to tarlatamab (Imdelltra) as a second- or later-line option for patients with extensive-stage small cell lung cancer (SCLC) with disease progression on or after platinum-based…

The treatment is for patients with small cell lung cancer, which afflicts about 35,000 people in the U.S. a year.

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved Amgen‘s therapy for patients with the most deadly form of lung cancer.

Chemotherapy kills cancer cells, and vitro studies have now uncovered a completely new way in which cancer cells die, linked to the Schlafen 11 (SLFN11) gene, and ribosome stalling. Researchers reporting on the discovery say this route to…