Scientists have been working on a new blood test that could possibly find eight different types of cancer. The new test would be able to find the cancer earlier than the usual tests. By finding the disease earlier, doctors...
Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer and it affects almost 100,000 Americans every year. A melanoma patient’s chances of survival and potential recovery depend almost completely on how early the cancer is diagnosed. When doctors discover it,...
People who have cancer that has spread to more than one site are living longer now than they ever have before. In large part, this is thanks to better treatments like immunotherapy. However, there is almost no information regarding...
If skin cancer is found early, it is highly curable. But to find it early, you need to pay attention to your body, and particularly, your moles. You should check your moles for abnormal color, size, or evolution. The...
Researchers have invented a new kind of cancer treatment that uses a vaccine to stimulate patients' immune systems. Once the immune system is active, the vaccine then directs it to kill cancerous cells throughout the body. This new vaccine has...
Among the several strategies oncologists use to treat cancer, there has never been one quite like the new fecal transplant method, proposed by a few research teams at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)....
Immunotherapy has given oncologists and cancer patients new options for treating their disease. It utilizes the powerful immune system to fight cancer in a more natural -- and oftentimes more powerful -- way. Although immunotherapy treatments have shown success...
A recent study published in Nature Medicine reveals new ways to determine which cancer patients will respond best to immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors. This kind of therapy has shown great potential in effectively removing malignancies in about 20 to...
A county clinic in Eastern China has been denounced and labeled as cruel by state media for taking three months to inform a patient that she had cervical cancer. Because of the delay in diagnosis, the patient's cancer metastasized...
A new, simple test could soon be all it takes for women with the deadliest form of breast cancer to determine their response to treatment. "Triple-negative" breast cancer is an aggressive type of the disease that is known to...
