Here's a growing list of the approved hormone therapies, immunotherapies and targeted therapies for treating cancer. Click on any of the drugs for more info on dosing, side effects and drug ...

While new cancer diagnoses have decreased overall since the 1990s, increases in obesity-related cancers are likely slowing this progress, according to the CDC. About two thirds of U.S. adults and ...

The Biden Initiative had begun to make progress toward those goals before it closed its doors for good. It created the Oncology Clinical Trial Information Commons, a collaboration among nine ...

In the first study, published in the Journal of Public Health, researchers investigated the connection between pets and colorectal cancer. They found that pet owners were almost three times as likely ...

Sometimes life can be a precarious balancing act. This balance can be disrupted in any number of ways – including the loss of a job or a divorce or a cancer diagnosis. Traumas like this can lead to ...

What you don’t know and can’t see can cause serious harm. In certain areas of the United States, private industries have created cancer corridors, places where unsuspecting residents breathe air laced ...

No one knew then that human papillomavirus (HPV), a common virus spread by skin contact during sexual activity, caused most cases of cervical cancer. With no evidence to favor one cause, scientists ...

Six days later, Zembruski-Ruple went to Sloan Kettering’s urgent care department to treat sores in her mouth and swelling around her eyes. The hospital diagnosed oral yeast infection and sent her home ...

Fatty liver disease, often associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome, is a leading cause of liver problems in the United States. NAFLD and its more severe form, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ...

Comparing the two data sets, the researchers found that oropharyngeal cancer risk was positively correlated with a younger age at the time of first oral sex, having oral contact the first time they ...

Between 2009 and 2023, the researchers enrolled 889 people at 55 medical centers in six countries who said they did not get the recommended 150 minutes of moderate physical activity per week. The ...

The researchers then looked at how lifestyle factors—especially diet—affect the gut microbiome and how this might in turn influence treatment response. They collected fecal samples from 113 melanoma ...