Easing Access to Cancer Clinical Trials
A study found that cancer patients were more likely to be approved for clinical trials after the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Progress Against Cancer
A study found that cancer patients were more likely to be approved for clinical trials after the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
The FDA approved a molecularly targeted therapeutic for treating certain patients with HER2-positive breast cancer.
A new study found disparities in secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking adult cancer survivors. Those who had a smoking-related cancer and those who were socioeconomically disadvantaged had higher rates of exposure. The adverse consequences...
The FDA’s recent announcement means the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab is now approved for five forms of cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) for the treatment of certain...
The FDA approved the first cancer treatment for use based on the tumor having certain biomarkers and not where in the body the tumor originated.
The FDA approved an immune checkpoint inhibitor – a type of immunotherapy – to treat certain patients with bladder cancer.
The FDA has approved a new immune checkpoint inhibitor, durvalumab, for the treatment of certain bladder cancer patients.
A decrease in a specific population of circulating tumor cells over two months of crizotinib treatment associated with progression-free survival.
A study describes a biomarker to predict immunotherapy response early in the course of treatment and a noninvasive imaging method to detect this biomarker.
A study connects alcohol consumption with an increased risk of most types of breast cancer among African-American women. For the past decade, researchers have known that alcohol raises the risk of breast cancer. But...
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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