Tag: cancer

5m A 13-year-old girl is in remission after becoming the first patient in the world to receive ground-breaking gene therapy for previously incurable leukemia. Alissa had undergone all conventional therapies, ...

A global study published this week in The Lancet assessed 34 risk factors for cancer, and found that “modifiable risk factors” accounted for 44.4% of all cancer deaths in 2019—and ...

The idea for the PMC began in 1977 when Starr and a few friends rode to the tip of Cape Cod in memory of his mother, who died of melanoma ...

Healthcare professionals need to be engaged in research to better understand cancer misinformation, how to combat it, and how to reach the population most affected by online health misinformation, according ...

Black women in the US have a higher mortality rate from breast cancer than white women. This may be in part due to differences in how a person’s environment affects ...

Continuing work started when he was vice president, President Joe Biden announced today the White House is relaunching a cancer “moonshot” — aiming to “end cancer as we know it ...

Key Takeaways The American Cancer Society is now accepting Dogecoin donations alongside 15 previously supported coins. The ACS aims to raise $1 million through its crypto cancer fund. The decision ...

Prostate cancer surgery in high-risk patients can safely be delayed for as long as 6 months and should therefore be considered a low priority compared with other cancer and emergent ...

Credit: CC0 Public Domain In a new paper with results that senior author Eric Strieter at the University of Massachusetts Amherst calls "incredibly surprising," he and his chemistry lab group ...