Cancer

Young patients with cancer need support when it comes to scholastic performance, which can be an empowering and motivating force during the challenges of cancer treatment, UF Health Cancer Center researchers have found.This article was […]

For U.S. adult cancer survivors with a new alcohol use disorder (AUD) diagnosis, the one-year cumulative incidence of AUD treatment initiation was 14.3%, according to a research letter published online May 27 in the Annals […]

A dysfunction in muscle blood vessels could be to blame for the weak muscles and weight loss that most cancer patients experience, according to a new study from University of Illinois Chicago researchers.This article was […]

More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat early-stage bladder cancer.This article was […]

Researchers have identified C5aR1 as a novel biomarker for metastasis risk and poor prognosis in patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), the most common type of metastatic skin cancer.This article was originally published on […]

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found that genetics and type of cancer treatment contribute most to a survivor’s risk of a second cancer.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

For women at higher risk of breast cancer, there is a proven way to cut the risk in half: take an anti-cancer drug such as tamoxifen.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using personalized models to decode how cancer behaves in individual patients—revealing hidden subtypes, improving survival predictions and charting a new course for precision medicine.This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com

Alcohol is a leading preventable cause of cancer, but public awareness of the connection remains strikingly low in the U.S., with just 40% of American adults recognizing alcohol as a cancer risk, according to a […]

Long-read sequencing technologies analyze long, continuous stretches of DNA. These methods have the potential to improve researchers’ ability to detect complex genetic alterations in cancer genomes. However, the complex structure of cancer genomes means that […]