Metastatic prostate cancer incidence rose after recommendation against routine screening, and FDA approves first PARP inhibitor for early-stage breast cancer for people with inherited BRCA mutations.
FDA approves neoadjuvant immunotherapy treatment for lung cancer, and radiation might not be needed for low-risk thyroid cancer.
Each year in the United States, about 14,480 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, and about 4,290 women die of the disease. Survivors often face a lifetime of complications, from infertility to pain and bleeding. ...
The FDA has approved an immune checkpoint inhibitor – a type of cancer immunotherapy – as a first-line therapeutic for certain patients with non-small cell lung cancer.
The FDA approved the immune checkpoint inhibitor, cemiplimab-rwlc, for certain patients with locally advanced or metastatic basal cell carcinoma
The FDA approved a CAR T-cell therapy – a class of cancer immunotherapy – to treat certain patients with large B-cell lymphoma, the most common form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The FDA granted accelerated approval to a molecularly targeted therapeutic for certain patients with marginal zone lymphoma or follicular lymphoma.
The FDA granted accelerated approval to a new oral targeted therapeutic to treat certain adult patients with the most common form of lung cancer.
The FDA approved the combination of an immune checkpoint inhibitor and a therapeutic that prevents tumors from growing blood vessels to treat certain patients with renal cell carcinoma. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
The FDA approved a molecularly targeted therapeutic for treating certain patients with some rare cancers affecting the gastrointestinal system. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the molecularly targeted therapeutic fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki (Enhertu) to treat adult...
AACR Fellow Lewis C. Cantley, PhD, leads a national effort targeting triple-negative breast cancer and ovarian cancer with a novel drug combination.
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