Radiation may shrink existing metastatic tumors not directly treated. New research shows the opposite effect: Such tumors may also grow.

Yet in its feverish purge of federal health programs, it has proposed eliminating the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its annual funding of $1.4 billion. That’s ...

Todd Heywood, known by his friends as simply “Heywood,” has been an outspoken HIV survivor, renowned investigative journalist, and queer advocate for most of his life. So it should come as no surprise ...

The NIH's National Cancer Institute, which has long benefited from bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians and scientists.

Researchers in Europe and the U.S. have long collaborated to tackle tough scientific questions. Certain fields, like rare diseases, particularly benefit from international collaboration because it ...

Women who used at-home test kits were more than twice as likely to complete screening than those who received only telephone reminders.

“These findings are concerning, especially as ICIs are being used more frequently in treating people with both early and late-stage cancers,” said Dr. Jingxuan Zhao, senior scientist, health services ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that two common types of hormone therapy may alter breast cancer risk in women before age 55. Researchers discovered that women treated ...

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For our sixth annual Cancer Health 25, we salute patient advocates for their unwavering efforts to support the cancer community. To be clear, our Cancer Health 25 is not a “best of” list or a “most ...

All 49 rectal cancer patients treated with Jemperli for six months had a clinical complete response and avoided surgery.

A combination, triplet therapy that targets cancer cells from within and without caused tumors to shrink or stabilize in nearly all patients with recurrent or persistent estrogen receptor- (ER-) ...