30-year smoking duration-based criteria could increase lung cancer screening

by Elana GotkineThirty-year smoking duration-based criteria could reduce eligibility gaps for all races relative to whites, while improving six-year lung cancer detection sensitivity, according to a s

Updated on: January 01,2026

30-year smoking duration-based criteria could increase lung cancer screening

by Elana GotkineThirty-year smoking duration-based criteria could reduce eligibility gaps for all races relative to whites, while improving six-year lung cancer detection sensitivity, according to a s

Updated on:January 01,2026

Giving less chemotherapy can still cure lymphoma patients in their 80s, study says

by Leslie Orr,University of Rochester Medical CenterCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainPeople aged 80 and older with a common type of lymphoma can take a half-dose of chemotherapy and be cured or signif

Updated on: February 28,2026

Giving less chemotherapy can still cure lymphoma patients in their 80s, study says

by Leslie Orr,University of Rochester Medical CenterCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainPeople aged 80 and older with a common type of lymphoma can take a half-dose of chemotherapy and be cured or signif

Updated on:February 28,2026

Blood test can detect single lung cancer calls using infrared technique

by Meg Cox,Loughborough UniversityThis figure shows how the technique identifies a single circulating tumor cell (CTC) in a lung cancer patient's blood sample. The sample is first viewed under a m

Updated on: January 18,2026

Blood test can detect single lung cancer calls using infrared technique

by Meg Cox,Loughborough UniversityThis figure shows how the technique identifies a single circulating tumor cell (CTC) in a lung cancer patient's blood sample. The sample is first viewed under a m

Updated on:January 18,2026

Doctors provide new hope for pancreatic cancer patients with less invasive radiofrequency ablation

byUniversity of Texas at San AntonioCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainUT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital became the first in South Texas to use an emerging and less-invasive tr

Updated on: February 17,2026

Doctors provide new hope for pancreatic cancer patients with less invasive radiofrequency ablation

byUniversity of Texas at San AntonioCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainUT Health San Antonio Multispecialty and Research Hospital became the first in South Texas to use an emerging and less-invasive tr

Updated on:February 17,2026

Alcohol-linked DNA damage tied to cancer risk: Study reveals repair enzyme's role

byInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CASModel of alcohol metabolism leading to acetaldehyde interstrand crosslink (AA-ICL). Credit:Communications Biology(2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42003

Updated on: January 08,2026

Alcohol-linked DNA damage tied to cancer risk: Study reveals repair enzyme's role

byInstitute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the CASModel of alcohol metabolism leading to acetaldehyde interstrand crosslink (AA-ICL). Credit:Communications Biology(2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42003

Updated on:January 08,2026

Combination treatment may help cut lifelong ibrutinib for chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients

byAmerican Association for Cancer ResearchCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainChronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most prevalent adult leukemia in the Western Hemisphere, affecting approximately 20

Updated on: February 08,2026

Combination treatment may help cut lifelong ibrutinib for chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients

byAmerican Association for Cancer ResearchCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainChronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most prevalent adult leukemia in the Western Hemisphere, affecting approximately 20

Updated on:February 08,2026

Black patients diagnosed with aggressive leukemia experience worse outcomes

byUniversity of Maryland School of MedicineCredit: Ninthgrid from PexelsCompared with white patients, Black patients with an aggressive form of leukemia—called acute myeloid leukemia (AML)—were on ave

Updated on: January 14,2026

Black patients diagnosed with aggressive leukemia experience worse outcomes

byUniversity of Maryland School of MedicineCredit: Ninthgrid from PexelsCompared with white patients, Black patients with an aggressive form of leukemia—called acute myeloid leukemia (AML)—were on ave

Updated on:January 14,2026

Clinical trial of personalized cancer vaccine demonstrates feasibility, safety, immune activation

byHarvard UniversityThe personalized biomaterial-based cancer vaccine consists of a porous biomaterial scaffold the size of an aspirin tablet that is infused with immune cell-recruiting and activating

Updated on: January 28,2026

Clinical trial of personalized cancer vaccine demonstrates feasibility, safety, immune activation

byHarvard UniversityThe personalized biomaterial-based cancer vaccine consists of a porous biomaterial scaffold the size of an aspirin tablet that is infused with immune cell-recruiting and activating

Updated on:January 28,2026

Cancer's hidden 'safety switch': Silencing TAK1 gene could boost immunotherapy performance

byLa Trobe UniversityCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainAustralian researchers have discovered that the TAK1 gene helps cancer cells survive attack from the immune system, revealing a mechanism that may

Updated on: January 26,2026

Cancer's hidden 'safety switch': Silencing TAK1 gene could boost immunotherapy performance

byLa Trobe UniversityCredit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainAustralian researchers have discovered that the TAK1 gene helps cancer cells survive attack from the immune system, revealing a mechanism that may

Updated on:January 26,2026

Accelerated cancer drug approvals yield modest survival gains at significant Medicare cost

byHarvard Pilgrim Health Care InstituteCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainEarly access to new cancer drugs, granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has provided mix

Updated on: January 07,2026

Accelerated cancer drug approvals yield modest survival gains at significant Medicare cost

byHarvard Pilgrim Health Care InstituteCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainEarly access to new cancer drugs, granted accelerated approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has provided mix

Updated on:January 07,2026

'Molecular glue' stabilizes protein that inhibits development of non-small cell lung cancer

by Ananya Sen,University of MichiganCredit: Jacob Dwyer, Justine Ross, Michigan MedicineLung cancer is the second-most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Over 80

Updated on: December 28,2025

'Molecular glue' stabilizes protein that inhibits development of non-small cell lung cancer

by Ananya Sen,University of MichiganCredit: Jacob Dwyer, Justine Ross, Michigan MedicineLung cancer is the second-most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Over 80

Updated on:December 28,2025

Gene modification can encourage T cell growth, improving cancer treatment's success rate

Updated on: March 25,2025

Gene modification can encourage T cell growth, improving cancer treatment's success rate

Updated on:March 25,2025