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Black cancer survivors also have a higher risk of death from heart disease, new study shows.

Chemotherapy drugs in short supply are essential for treating esophageal, pancreatic and colon cancer.

Jail incarceration was associated with increased cancer deaths for common cancers for white people, but not for Black people.

Study authors recommend programs to screen for loneliness among cancer survivors and to provide social support to those in need.

People with mutations that lead to excessively long chromosome tips, or telomeres, may be at increased risk for a range of cancers.

However, deaths due to liver cancer in men and lung cancer in women are increasing in most countries.

Fred Hutch researchers examined risks and health outcomes for Black and white women with endometriosis and fibroids.

GLP-1 analog medications improved the functionality of cancer-fighting natural killer cells.

Chemotherapy drugs are increasingly in short supply, warn the American Cancer Society and ACS CAN about this life-threatening situation.

All U.S. firefighters are encouraged to join the federal registry to help understand and reduce cancer in the fire service. Here’s how.

Treatment has shifted to immunotherapy, but survival gains have been small for people over age 75.

Accelerated progress is needed to achieve Cancer Moonshot goal of cutting the age-adjusted cancer death rate by at least 50% over 25 years.

Human papillomavirus and hepatitis B vaccines lower the risk of developing cancer.

Fatigue, a common companion of many chronic illnesses, is a persistent feeling of having no energy, even with minimal or no exertion.

Moderna and Merck’s personalized neoantigen vaccine plus checkpoint inhibitor lowered the risk of disease progression after surgery by 44%.