August 11, 2023 Family of cancer patient Henrietta Lacks sues CA company accused of unjustly profiting off her cells for years The family of Henrietta Lacks, whose cancer biopsy sample helped enable many medical innovations, is suing a second company accused of unjustly profiting off a racist medical system.
August 10, 2023 Novel cancer treatment offers new hope when chemo and radiation fail: ‘Big change in people's lives' Dr. Noopur Raje, director of the Center for Multiple Myeloma at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Fox News Digital how CAR T-cell therapy is revolutionizing cancer treatment.
August 10, 2023 New AI tech aims to detect the origin of cancers for optimal treatments: ‘An important step’ Researchers at MIT have created an artificial intelligence (AI) model that analyzes the genetic information and predicts where in the body tumors first appeared.
July 30, 2023 Just 4 minutes of intense daily activity could slash cancer risk among ‘non-exercisers,’ study finds Just 4 to 5 minutes of “vigorous physical activity" could reduce cancer risk among people who have been generally inactive, a new study in the journal JAMA Oncology found.
June 29, 2023 Uterine cancer deaths could soon outnumber deaths from ovarian cancer, oncologist says: ‘We need to do better’ Dr. Brian Slomovitz, director of gynecologic oncology at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, shared insights on screenings, symptoms, treatments and risk factors for uterine cancer.
June 8, 2023 Carboplatin, cisplatin drug shortages impacting treatment of US cancer patients: ‘Unacceptable situation’ A shortage of two drugs doctors commonly use to treat cancer, carboplatin and cisplatin, is forcing the medical community to seek alternative treatments.
June 7, 2023 Two new cancer pills show ‘unprecedented’ results in boosting survival rates and preventing recurrence Potentially “practice-changing" new breast and lung cancer treatments were announced at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting this week in Chicago. Here are details.
May 28, 2023 Artificial intelligence model to help scientists predict whether breast cancer will spread Breast cancer researchers in the U.K. said they have developed an AI model to help scientists predict whether breast cancer will spread to other parts of the body.
April 30, 2023 How Washington can help our moonshot against cancer become a reality As the Biden administration rolls out their “National Cancer Plan" this month, Washington can help make this critical bipartisan goal a reality by cutting unnecessary bureaucratic red tape.
April 17, 2023 ‘Missing’ cancer cases: New diagnoses dropped more than 14% early in pandemic Amid stay-at-home orders early in the pandemic, some 200,000 people who had cancer did not receive diagnoses or treatment when the pandemic began in 2020, researchers found.
