A recent study shows that the chemotherapy drug vandetanib (Caprelsa) may extend life for some thyroid cancer patients. The results of phase 2 trials showed that patients taking the drug lived for 11 months without the cancer progressing, compared with six months...
When a clinical trial is stopped abruptly just eight months after its start, it's either very good or very bad...
After her dermatologist diagnosed the spot on her nose as the skin cancer basal O cell carcinoma (BCC), Lana went online to...
Older women who take an aspirin regularly may be lowering their risk of developing the deadly skin cancer melanoma, a recent study...
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Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer. It's particularly frightening because it's more likely than other...
The addition of two well-tolerated chemotherapy drugs to radiation therapy led to significantly longer survival rates among patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer....
Besides being easier on the body, minimally invasive surgery to remove the esophagus of patients with esophageal cancer can also greatly reduce...
Radiation, chemotherapy and surgery are widely known to be the main treatments for cancer. But to fight the disease more effectively and...
A recent study raises the possibility of a A DNA-based blood test that doctors could routinely use to determine whether a patient...
People who have had a colonoscopy during which a high-risk potentially cancerous polyp was removed may not need another colonoscopy for five...
Maybe you started as a teen, lighting up to be cool—then got hooked. Hopefully, you put cigarettes aside years ago or...