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Obesity, physical inactivity and smoking may be factors that are responsible for the rise of early-onset disease.

“Today, it is not only youth who are at risk for smoking initiation. We will need to carefully consider young adults as well.”

Researchers are developing a new class of drugs called radiopharmaceuticals, which deliver radiation therapy directly to cancer cells.

Keytruda plus chemotherapy should be a new standard of care as first-line therapy in patients with esophageal cancer, say researchers.

Researchers want to determine whether oligometastatic tumors can either prolong or improve the quality of life for patients.

“It appears that oncologists are not prescribing opioids as much as they did previously."

“People living with HIV shoulder an enormous burden of cancer,” said lead researcher Joseph Sparano, MD.

The iCanQuit app is 1 1/2 times more efficacious than National Cancer Institute QuitGuide app, based on US clinical practice guidelines.

Adding the targeted drug to chemo and radiation treatment is safe and increases the chance that most of the tumor will die before surgery.

Women who took this drug in addition to standard chemotherapy lived longer than those who just received standard chemo.

In recent years, deaths from non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have decreased even faster than the decrease in NSCLC incidence.

Fees to park at cancer facilities can cost patients hundreds of dollars.

These survivors are more likely to develop high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, thyroid disorder and other chronic conditions.

A new study has found that a microRNA may help drive the transition from normal fallopian tube cells to cancer in the ovary.

To find a better FTO-targeting drug, researchers searched a collection of 260,000 chemicals housed by NCI.

The gene-editing tool can alter the DNA of human cells like a precise pair of scissors.