Combining standard adjuvant chemotherapy with the immune checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab [Tecentriq] leads to a significant improvement in disease-free survival in a subset of patients with Stage ...

Results from the Phase III SERENA-6 clinical trial found that switching to treatment with camizestrant if an ESR1 mutation is detected during first-line treatment can help slow cancer growth for ...

Here's a list of the approved drugs to treat colon cancer, also known as colorectal cancer. Click on any of the medications for more info on indications, dosing and side effects. Keytruda is a PD-1 ...

A pre-surgical combination therapy including pembrolizumab [Keytruda] plus dabrafenib [Tafinlar] and trametinib [Mekinist] (DTP) significantly improved survival in patients with rare BRAF ...

Kelly Bolton St. Louis, Missouri To help prevent blood cancers, Kelly Bolton, MD, PhD, an oncologist and epidemiologist at the University of Washington Medical School, is leading clinical trials for ...

People who are overweight or obese are at higher risk for at least 13 different types of cancer, which together make up about 40 percent of all cancer diagnoses in the United States, according to the ...

The number of people living with a history of cancer in the United States is estimated at 18.6 million as of January 1, 2025 and projected to exceed 22 million by 2035, according to a new report, ...

On May 15, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Zynyz (retifanlimab) immunotherapy for people with advanced anal cancer based on promising results from a late-stage clinical trial. This ...

Chemotherapy doesn’t just kill cancer cells. It also affects the microbes in the digestive tract. Researchers at UC San Francisco have discovered that some gut bacteria can reduce the side effects of ...

People who used GLP-1 receptor agonists, like Ozempic, had a modestly lower risk for obesity-related malignancies, especially colon and rectal cancer.

Cancer develops when cells grow out of control. Lung cancer begins in the lungs and can spread to the lymph nodes and elsewhere in the body, a process known as metastasis. Lung cancer is often ...

The new website CancerSurvivalRates.com has launched with the promise of providing people with cancer and their families a simple way of getting information about the typical survival rates for their ...