Screening, treatment and life after cancer.
A new pill called divarasib helped people with previously treated KRAS G12C lung cancer live longer than older pills did, with fewer serious side effects. If this is your family's situation, you…
In a large trial, women with advanced breast cancer that had outlasted several treatments went much longer without growth on a new drug than on chemo. Here is what it means and…
In a trial of people with operable lung cancer, tumor DNA clearing from the blood before surgery went with much longer time cancer-free. It gives patients a useful question to bring to…
In 580 people with lymphoma, CAR-T treatment kept working longer when it contained more young T cells, with no extra side effects. Here is what it means for you.
In a new study of people with eye melanoma that had spread, two pills taken by mouth shrank tumors in about a third of them. Here is what that means, and one…
A national study found that watch and wait, skipping surgery after a strong response to treatment, rose from 2.30% of rectal cancer patients in 2015 to 32.94% in 2023. More people now…
In a trial of 152 adults with blood cancers, methylphenidate eased fatigue more than a placebo did. Tiredness is a real symptom with a real treatment, so it is worth raising with…
Women with endometrial cancer that kept growing after chemotherapy and immunotherapy lived longer on a new drug. It is a real step forward for women's cancers with few options left.
A low-dose immunotherapy injected right into early squamous cell skin cancer left no cancer behind in many tumors. Here is what it means for you and a two-minute skin check to do…
In a large trial, women with advanced HER2-low breast cancer went a median 16.4 months before their cancer grew on a new drug, vs 6.8 months on chemo. Here is what it…
In a study of 142 people, a care team reviewed each case after immunotherapy and chemo. Nearly all went on to surgery or curative radiation, a strong sign for tough tumors.
A short message on a post made people with cancer and their caregivers flag false treatment claims 2 to 3 times more often. Next time you see a fake cure, you can…
In 75 women with breast cancer, sleep trouble during chemo predicted foggy thinking months later. Sleep is treatable, which makes it a great thing to raise with your care team.
A new expert review in The BMJ shows how kidney cancer care has moved forward: surgery that can save part of the kidney, and immune-based drugs that help people live longer when…
At five years, 92.4% of women who responded well to targeted drugs and had no cancer left at surgery were free of invasive disease without chemotherapy. Here is what to ask.
A new treatment held EGFR lung cancer back longer than chemotherapy after targeted pills stopped working, with similar rates of serious side effects. Here is what it means and one question to…
People with muscle-invasive bladder cancer who can't get cisplatin chemo now have a treatment that works. Adding two drugs around surgery helped more of them stay alive.
A phase 3 trial found that adding tarlatamab to maintenance treatment gave people with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer a median survival of 21.1 months, up from 12.7. Here is what it means…
Colorectal cancer survivors whose cortisol rose and fell more clearly across the day felt less fatigue in the year after treatment. Morning light and a steady wake-up time are easy habits to…
When colorectal cancer spreads to the liver, surgery through small cuts led to fewer complications than open surgery, with the same long-term survival. Here is what to ask your surgeon.
