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Some patients may put off chemotherapy treatments for more than two years, thanks to a new class of drugs approved for metastatic breast cancer.
Many Americans are buzzing over the federal government's recent approval of the country's first prescription-free genetic test for hereditary mutations linked to several common cancers. But cancer experts are raising serious concerns that the test will do more harm than good.
Some cancer patients respond so well to certain treatment when others do not that scientists are researching what makes them unique. Find out what they're learning about so-called exceptional responders, and how that may lead to advancements in cancer treatment.
When it comes to cancer, cell size or shape may be critical in helping to diagnose the type and stage of the disease.
Devastating to patients and frustrating for doctors, resistance to treatment is all too common in many types of cancers.
A new study suggests that low-dose estrogen contraceptives have not had the impact doctors expected, and experts are urging women to talk to their doctors about the implications for their breast health, even though the overall risk remains relatively small.
Since the first vaccine for smallpox was developed by English physician Edward Jenner in 1796, vaccines have prevented a variety of devastating maladies and saved millions of lives. The World Health Organization lists 26 available vaccines—for diseases from cholera to yellow fever—and another two dozen are in development for illnesses like malaria and the Zika virus. Not on the list of diseases targeted by current or potential vaccines: cancer. In fact, despite advances in medicine, and in cancer treatment in particular, one unfortunate scientific reality is that a universal vaccine to prevent cancer will likely never be developed.
Science fiction storylines that have played out on TV and movie screens have helped to shape some tools and technologies that have become positively commonplace today.
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