Keeping Watch for Brain Metastasis
Understanding brain metastasis risk could influence screening, surveillance practices, a study of breast cancer, lung cancer, and melanoma patients found.
Progress Against Cancer
Understanding brain metastasis risk could influence screening, surveillance practices, a study of breast cancer, lung cancer, and melanoma patients found.
Since 2011, immunotherapy has emerged as an exciting new approach to cancer treatment that is yielding unprecedented, durable responses for patients with an increasingly diverse array of cancer types. Much of the excitement has...
Building on advances in technology and analytical tools, real-world data (RWD) sources have attracted increasing interest as means to efficiently answer important clinical, research, and regulatory questions around oncology treatments and outcomes. RWD can...
Rare cancers, when taken all together, make up an estimated 20 to 25 percent of all cancers diagnosed. With more than 1.7 million people in the U.S. expected to be diagnosed with cancer this year, that could mean as many as 400,000 people will learn they have a rare cancer. Often, these patients have few treatment options.
Every two minutes, a woman somewhere in the world dies of cervical cancer. That harrowing statistic, shared by Anna R. Giuliano, PhD, founding director of the Center for Immunization and Infection Research in Cancer at...
Every person who hears the words “you have cancer” has a unique story. As part of Cancer Today’s mission to provide “practical hope” and “real knowledge” to those who are affected by cancer, we...
When I started my postdoc at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in May 2016, I was thrilled to experience a truly comprehensive training in breast cancer. During my tenure, I decided to take advantage of opportunities offered to me outside of the lab to learn about cancer from every angle, including attending weekly breast tumor boards and presenting my work to the Georgetown Breast Cancer Advocates (GBCA).
Decades of research have led to the identification of an increasing number of cancer-causing substances in our environment. These substances, known as environmental carcinogens, can be found anywhere, including in our air, water, food,...
Back for the month of June are the editors’ picks from the eight scientific journals published by the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). Selections this month range from the identification of a long...
Irene Ghobrial, MD, a medical oncologist, answer questions from the Cancer Today staff on a study of precursor conditions to multiple myeloma. March is Multiple Myeloma Awareness Month.
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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