The Food and Drug Administration this month approved Optune Pax, from Novocure—a wearable tumor-treating fields (TTFields) device that uses electric fields to kill cancer cells—for the treatment of ...
AICR Executive Director of Research and Policy, Dr Giota Mitrou, said: “On International Childhood Cancer Day, it is heartening to see global attention focused on the children and young people, and ...
Most women prefer in-person cervical cancer screening at a clinic to at-home self-tests, according to a study published in JAMA Network conducted by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson ...
“Most cancers that occur in children are fundamentally different from cancers occurring in adults,” explained Stephen Skapek, MD, Duke Cancer Institute, Chair of the NCCN Guidelines Panel for ...
Cancer is not one but many diseases. How it develops and its symptoms, diagnosis and treatment vary widely based on cancer type and where it is located in the body. According to the National Cancer ...
Here's a list of the approved drugs to treat ovarian cancer. Click on any of the medications for more info on indications, dosing and side effects. Lupron is a GnRH agonist approved for palliative ...
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), PFAS, of which there are thousands of kinds, are widely used chemicals whose components break down very slowly over time. Because of their ...
“These complementary findings suggest that Medicaid expansion is associated with improved survival through multiple pathways, by facilitating timely detection, enabling treatment initiation and ...
Fear and uncertainty After growing up in a small town on Colorado’s Western Slope, Duffy became a teacher, and at age 22 met her husband, Brennan, a fellow teacher. They later moved to the suburbs ...
“What people eat after a cancer diagnosis may influence survival, but most research in this population has focused only on nutrients, not how processed the food is,” Bonaccio said. “The substances ...
In December, the same research group published another study showing a survival benefit for small-cell lung cancer patients who received checkpoint inhibitors before mid-afternoon. A morning advantage ...
NFL icons Bruce Arians, Rob Gronkowski, George Kittle and others have teamed up with global pharmaceutical company Novartis to launch “ Relax, It’s a Blood Test,” a national prostate cancer awareness ...