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The new findings are an important first step in moving toward using even less radiation to treat high-risk pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma.

Text messaging and mailing people free, at-home test kits can help boost the number of people who get screened for colorectal cancer.

The test could help patients with ER-positive breast cancer avoid months of ineffective treatment during which their disease may progress.

The new study showed that results for Black women on the breast cancer test Oncotype DX may be inaccurate.

People who have had COVID-19 appear to be protected against reinfection for at least a few months.

“This is the fight of our lives, and we will never stop working to end this disease,” the first lady told the National Cancer Institute.

The National Cancer Institute discusses the progress of the Cancer Moonshot to accelerate cancer research.

People who have had evidence of a prior infection appear to have some degree of protection against being reinfected with the virus.

The nanoparticles led to more cancer-killing immune cells and slowed the growth of melanoma in mice.

People who received this form of radiation therapy for spinal metastases were pain-free up to 6 months after treatment.

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."