Study: Liver Cancer Associated with Obesity and Diabetes
Each of the three obesity-related factors, body mass index (BMI), waist size, and type 2 diabetes, was associated with liver cancer risk in a large study.
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Each of the three obesity-related factors, body mass index (BMI), waist size, and type 2 diabetes, was associated with liver cancer risk in a large study.
An investigational immunotherapeutic was safe, tolerable, and showed some activity against melanoma in a phase I clinical trial.
The FDA approved a molecularly targeted therapeutic for treating certain patients with soft tissue sarcoma.
The number of Hispanic breast cancer patients in California getting care and participating in a clinical trial increased, a study found.
The lack of androgen receptor protein may contribute to racial disparities in survival for women with this aggressive form of breast cancer.
The FDA expanded the use of an immunotherapy to include the treatment of certain patients with lung cancer.
In an early-phase trial, investigators study whether combining immunotherapies expands “tumor-specific immune activation.” A small phase Ib study of a combination of an investigational cytokine-based immunotherapy and the checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab (Keytruda) showed promise...
Researchers seek to understand why some patients do not respond to immunotherapeutics while others achieve durable outcomes.
Black patients in highly segregated neighborhoods were less likely to have lung cancer surgery.
The FDA expanded the use of an immunotherapy to include the treatment of certain patients with head and neck cancer.
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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