Breast Cancer Incidence Still Rises and Death Rate Still Declines
WEB2 days ago · A new American Cancer Society (ACS) report finds that the incidence of breast cancer in women has continued to increase, rising by 1% a year during 2012 to 2021, for all women combined. These cases are largely confined to localized-stage cancers, which have not spread from the breast, and hormone receptor-positive disease (either estrogen positive or progesterone positive), the most common ...
Cancer News -- ScienceDaily
WEB3 days ago · Read the latest medical research on risk factors for cancer, cancer symptoms, treatments and more. Updated daily.
News & Events - NCI - National Cancer Institute
WEBJul 11, 2024 · The latest cancer news from the US government's principal agency for cancer research, plus resources designed for science writers and reporters.
Cancer News - Health News, Medicine News, Cancer - Medical Xpress
WEB3 days ago · The latest news on cancer, health, medicines, cancer treatments, cancer research, cancer studies and types of cancer.
Cancer Currents: An NCI Cancer Research Blog - NCI
WEBSep 11, 2024 · Researchers have identified hundreds of promising targets for existing drugs or potential new cancer drugs. The findings relied heavily on proteogenomic data from more than 1,000 tumors representing 10 types of cancer released last year by NCI's CPTAC program.
Aggressive colon cancer: Newly identified bacteria found in ... - NBC News
WEBA newly identified subspecies of bacteria may drive aggressive colon cancer growth. Does the bacteria play a role in the surge in cases in younger adults? Scientists discovered that a common type...
FDA approves groundbreaking treatment for advanced melanoma - NBC News
WEBFeb 16, 2024 · The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new cancer therapy that could one day transform the way a majority of aggressive and advanced tumors are treated.
Lung cancer survival rates are up thanks to immunotherapy, other ... - NPR
WEBApr 12, 2024 · But with new treatments and technology, the survival rates from lung cancer are dramatically improving, allowing some patients with relatively late-stage cancers to live for years longer.
Lifileucel First Cellular Therapy Approved for Cancer
WEBMar 5, 2024 · In an event more than three decades in the making, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lifileucel (Amtagvi), the first treatment for cancer that uses immune cells called tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, or TILs.
Breast Cancer Drug Trial Results in ‘Unheard-Of’ Survival
WEBJun 7, 2022 · Drugs that block HER2 have been stunningly effective in treating breast cancers that are almost entirely populated with the protein, turning HER2-positive breast cancers from those with some of...