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Cancer Health Summer Issue
Alternative Therapies Can Be Risky
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Breast Cancer Tumor Test Lets Many Women Avoid Chemotherapy

Researchers Develop Predictor for Immunotherapy Response in Melanoma

IMPRES score identified nearly all patients who responded to checkpoint inhibitors and more than half of those who did not.

Improving Cancer Vaccines With T-Cell Programming Nanoparticles

Matthias Stephan, MD, PhD, receives grant to develop cancer vaccine–optimizing, TCR-programming nanotechnology.

FDA Approves Opdivo for Small Cell Lung Cancer

First new treatment in two decades for uncommon type of lung cancer.

Brighten Up Your Loved One’s Day: Jewelry

Wearable gifts to put a smile on a cancer patient’s face.
Steven Rosenberg, MD, PhD

Rosenberg, NCI-Supported Researchers to Receive 2018 Albany Prize

Rosenberg, June and Allison win award for breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy.

Lung Cancer Mortality Is on the Rise Among Women

By 2030, women around the world will be more likely to die of lung cancer than breast cancer.

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New Cancer Drug Works Regardless of Tumor Location
Can Light Drinking Raise Cancer Risk?
CAR-T Therapy: Lifeline to A Cure?
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More Than 40 Percent of Cancers May Be Preventable
Prostate Cancer Screening Reduces Deaths, but Controversy Remains
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Tecentriq Plus Avastin Slows Kidney Cancer Progression
Julie Wisnia and the poster exhibits that inspired her to do the Pan-Mass Challenge

From Ovarian Cancer Patient to Pan-Mass Challenge Cyclist in One Year

There is nothing that motivates you quite like remembering the days you couldn’t shower independently or put your own socks on.

Medical Marijuana Could Boost Efficacy of Pancreatic Cancer Treatments

A substance found in cannabis could help extend patients’ lives by several years.
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Soul Legend Aretha Franklin Dies at 76

The “Queen of Soul” lost her battle with pancreatic cancer.

FDA Approves New Targeted Therapy for Liver Cancer

Lenvima works as well as standard therapy for metastatic or unresectable cancer.

Aggressive Prostate Cancer Subtype More Common Than Expected

This finding could lead to clinical trials specifically for men with treatment-emergent small-cell neuroendocrine prostate cancer.

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Genetic Study of Familial Leukemia Solves 30-Year Medical Mystery

The study focused on children with a form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), and the findings could also be relevant to other blood disorders.

3 New Projects Map Out Immune Responses to Cancers

Scientists aim to gather knowledge that improves future immunotherapies.

Developing Biomarkers for Immunotherapy

A conversation with Magdalena Thurin, PhD, and Helen Chen, MD
Arnaud Mejean, MD

Many Advanced Kidney Cancer Patients Don’t Need Surgery

Those who received targeted therapy did equally well without kidney removal.

Finally, a Potential New Approach Against KRAS-Driven Lung Cancer

Study finds COPD, asthma and cystic fibrosis gene involved in lung cancer.
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