January 30, 2017 Ohio teen zaps cop with stun gun to fulfill bucket-list wish Police in central Ohio helped a teenage leukemia patient cross off a bucket-list item that was seriously shocking: She wanted to use a stun gun on someone.
January 23, 2017 Cancer patients with depression have resources Reuters Health - Cancer patients who experience depression can use both therapy and lifestyle tools to help support their mental health, according to a new patient resource from the JAMA Oncology journal.
January 5, 2017 Hospice care linked to higher family satisfaction Families of terminally ill cancer patients may be more satisfied with the end-of-life treatment their loved ones receive when it involves hospice care, a recent study suggests.
January 3, 2017 Life-extending capacity of new cancer drugs varies widely Drugs recently approved around the world to fight cancer increased patients' overall survival, but benefits vary depending on the drug, a new study shows.
December 28, 2016 Seattle Genetics' cancer drug put on clinical hold after four deaths Seattle Genetics Inc said four people had died in trials testing its experimental cancer drug, prompting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to impose a clinical hold on several early-stage studies.
December 5, 2016 Cancer drugs may remain approved despite lack of benefit In the United States, cancer drugs are sometimes approved through sped-up processes - and they often stay approved even if later studies show them to be inferior to other options or even worse than doing nothing, a new study found.
December 5, 2016 Novartis says 82 percent of leukemia patients in remission after CAR-T An experimental cancer therapy being developed by Novartis AG eliminated an aggressive form of blood cancer in 82 percent of children and young adults treated with modified immune cells in a mid-stage trial, the company said on Saturday.
December 2, 2016 Medicare recipients with cancer face financial distress Older cancer patients in the U.S. often face high out-of-pocket costs that are a significant financial burden, according to a new study.
December 2, 2016 2-time cancer survivor Jarrod Lyle nails hole-in-one shot A 35-year-old Aussie golfer who fought his way back onto the Australian PGA tour after two battles with leukemia has nailed the first hole-in-one of the 2017 European Tour season.
December 1, 2016 Bluebird, Celgene myeloma treatment impresses in tiny study Most patients who previously were not helped by repeated treatments for multiple myeloma showed strong benefits from a new type of therapy in a small study, and with no worrisome side effects, drugmaker Bluebird Bio Inc said on Wednesday.
