#cancer research

Next-generation medications have made chronic conditions out of previously fatal cancers.

Injecting Clostridium bacteria into tumors slows disease progression.

Communities focused on specific lung cancer genetic mutations offer patient support and accelerate research.

The plan represents our best judgement on the optimum funding needed to make the most rapid progress against cancer.

So far, only a small proportion of cancers have known driver mutations, despite the best effort of hundreds of researchers worldwide.

Jamie Troil Goldfarb, 40, is a patient advocate and works in public relations. She lives in Takoma Park, Maryland, with her husband and son.

We asked the experts what they think will be the next big breakthroughs.

More than 300 organizations call for more funding for the National Institutes of Health.

Medical experts say the company’s famous Watson AI system has recommended therapies that are “unsafe and incorrect.”

But scientists continue to overlook Africans in genome research.

The animals have 100 times as many cells as humans but rarely get cancer. New gene studies may help explain why.

Doctors say the high-tech health devices are also good at objectively measuring quality of life.

Kelly Shanahan, MD, is a wife, mother, daughter, doctor, woman living with metastatic breast cancer and medical director of METUP.

Barriers to cancer treatment access come in many forms.

The actor’s father died of lung cancer in 2011.