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Embryos in the womb can get gene mutations that lead to cancer in adulthood.

Are the costs of screenings and the potential harms of overdiagnosis justified by the number of lives that could be lost to melanoma?

Dr. Anton Bilchik hopes his work on the SU2C Colorectal Cancer Health Equity Dream Team improves outcomes.

AI tools have the potential to make cancer imaging faster, more accurate and even more informative. And that’s generating excitement.

Research led by Adam Green, MD, shows the five-year survival rates for children ages 0 to 3 months is half that of children ages 1 to 19.

A large clinical trial found that adding darolutamide to two other therapies increased survival for people with advanced prostate cancer.

“If you have to drive four hours to see a doctor, you’re less likely to do it.”

Cases of the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, are on the rise.

Removing naive T cells before a stem cell transplant in certain cancer patients may prevent chronic graft-versus-host disease.

Prompt treatment of precancerous lesions in people with HIV reduced the likelihood of developing anal cancer by 57%.

Study findings show that TIL therapy may help people with metastatic breast cancer who have exhausted all other treatment options.

For some people with access to skilled surgeons, surgery plus chemotherapy improves survival compared to chemotherapy alone.

Activist, philanthropist and strategist Mary Lasker helped lead the movement behind the National Cancer Act of 1971

Despite health insurance, almost three-fourths of these patients experienced financial hardship within first year after diagnosis.

A new program that reduces racial disparities in five-year-survival rates for breast and lung cancer.

Immunotherapy was far more effective than targeted therapy in extending survival for people with certain kinds of advanced melanoma.