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Black patients in highly segregated neighborhoods were less likely to have lung cancer surgery.
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Black patients in highly segregated neighborhoods were less likely to have lung cancer surgery.
Researchers urge better regulation to protect public health It’s no surprise that air pollution has been linked with lung cancer. A new study suggests that pollution is also associated with increased risk of mortality...
The amount of residual tumor left after surgery is an important prognostic factor for ovarian cancer patient survival. A newly devised tumor-specific fluorescent agent and imaging system guided surgeons in real time to remove...
Researchers examine the “oral microbiome” to look for clues to cancer risk. In a continuing effort to better understand how cancers develop, some researchers are looking into the mouth and finding that poor oral...
The types of fats that girls consume during adolescence could influence breast density, a risk factor for breast cancer, in young adulthood.
Maintaining an exercise routine, or even launching a new one, may improve outcomes for men diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Diets with high amounts of simple carbohydrates appear to increase the risk of lung cancer, especially among people who have never smoked.
Study presented at the AACR’s eighth annual cancer health disparities conference examines how improved diet reduced the risk of ovarian cancer in some African-American women. Despite the substantial progress made in preventing and treating...
Finding the latest discoveries in breast cancer care together. More than 7,000 breast cancer researchers, survivors, advocates, and others from 95 countries attended the 2015 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) in early December....
The former president, who announced in August 2015 he had metastatic melanoma, recently said he was cancer-free after treatment with pembrolizumab.
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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