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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Population-based lung cancer screening can reduce mortality in people who have never smoked, study shows

byEuropean Society for Medical OncologyCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainNew evidence from a Chinese cohort presented at theEuropean Lung Cancer Congress (ELCC) 2026shows that one-time low-dose comput

Updated on: June 10,2026

Population-based lung cancer screening can reduce mortality in people who have never smoked, study shows

byEuropean Society for Medical OncologyCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainNew evidence from a Chinese cohort presented at theEuropean Lung Cancer Congress (ELCC) 2026shows that one-time low-dose comput

Updated on:June 10,2026

Prioritizing potentially cancer-causing mutations in real-world cancer genomics

byHiroshima UniversityOverview of a framework for prioritizing variants of uncertain significance (VUS) identified by comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP), based on real-world data from 2,172 tests s

Updated on: June 09,2026

Prioritizing potentially cancer-causing mutations in real-world cancer genomics

byHiroshima UniversityOverview of a framework for prioritizing variants of uncertain significance (VUS) identified by comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP), based on real-world data from 2,172 tests s

Updated on:June 09,2026

Early results from a trial of active surveillance for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ are 'reassuring'

by European Organisation for Research and Treatment of CancerCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainResearchers leading a trial of active surveillance for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) have described ear

Updated on: May 30,2026

Early results from a trial of active surveillance for low-risk ductal carcinoma in situ are 'reassuring'

by European Organisation for Research and Treatment of CancerCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainResearchers leading a trial of active surveillance for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) have described ear

Updated on:May 30,2026

'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