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A new type of cancer drug might help treat brain diseases like Alzheimer’s, mouse studies suggest.
The drugs block an enzyme called indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1), researchers reported.
IDO1 inhibitors are being developed as a treatment for cancers like melanoma, leukemia and b...
A meditation technique called mindful breathing can help cancer patients manage their pain and anxiety, a new study finds.
Cancer patients who engaged in 20 minutes of mindful breathing experienced a greater reduction in pain than those who weren’t taught the tech...
Ovarian cancer is known as a "silent killer," since by the time symptoms arise the disease has often already spread.
But in certain cases of aggressive ovarian cancer, symptoms do arise in the tumor's early stages. In those instances, doctors on the alert can act quickly, offering patients a much better prognosis, a new study finds.
This "symptom-triggered testing" approach led to s...
Americans continue to rank dead last in life expectancy among English-speaking countries, a new study finds.
People in the United States more often fall prey at younger ages to accidental deaths, homicides and chronic diseases, researchers reported Aug. 13 in the BMJ Open journal.
On the other hand, Australians had t...
Men, take note: Cancer cases and deaths among males will jump globally by 84% and 93%, respectively, by 2050, new research predicts.
Published Monday in the journal Cancer, the study found the increases were greater among men 65 and older and in countries and territories with a low or medium "human d...
New research confirms that alcohol is not your friend as you age: Even light drinking was linked to an increase in cancer deaths among older adults, with the raised risk most pronounced in those who had other health problems or lived in low-income areas.
The study, which tracked just over 135,000 adults aged 60 and older for 12 years, also dispels the longstanding belief that li...
An experimental drug based on ancient Chinese herbal medicine can help ease the toxic side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy in cancer patients, the results of a small new trial results suggest.
A small group of 24 patients experienced fewer GI side ...
A new government report reveals that deaths among Americans decreased by a significant 6.1% between 2022 and 2023.
Much of this was due to COVID-19's ebbing effect on deaths.
During the pandemic, over a million Americans lost their lives, and in 2021 it was the third leading cause of death.
However, new data shows ...
Radiation therapy following surgery can keep breast cancer from returning for up to 10 years, a new study claims.
The study supports the current standard of care for early-stage breast cancer, which involves surgery followed by radiation therapy, researchers said.
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Deaths among Americans dropped by a significant 6.1% between 2022 and 2023, a new government tally finds.
Much of this was due to COVID-19's ebbing effect on deaths.
During the pandemic, over a million Americans lost their lives, and in 2021 it was the third leading cause of death.
However, new data shows that as v...
People who use marijuana at high levels are putting themselves at more than three times the risk for head and neck cancers, new research warns.
The study is perhaps the most rigorous ever conducted on the issue, tracking the medical records of over 4 million U.S. adults for 20 years.
Given the surging popularity of marijuana, cases of head and neck cancers "attributable to cannabis...
A new immunotherapy is now available to treat a rare soft tissue cancer that most frequently occurs in young men.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Tecelra (afamitresgene autoleuecel) to treat synovial sarcoma, which most commonly develops in the muscles an...
Screening for cancer saves lives, but a new report shows it comes with a hefty price tag: The United States spends at least $43 billion annually on tests that check for five major cancers.
Published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the new analysis focused on screenings for br...
A person’s lifespan appears to be linked to four specific social factors – marriage, gender, education and race.
The interplay between those four factors helps explain differences in lifespan between Americans, researchers report.
“There is a complex interaction between social and individual determinants of health, with no one determinant explaining the full obse...
Too many women don’t know a key warning sign of endometrial cancer, the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs, a new study shows.
More than one-third (37%) of women surveyed did not know that postmenopausal bleeding is a key symptom of endometrial cancer, researchers said.
Worse, 41% said they wouldn’t tell their doctor about postmenopausal bleeding if t...
Cancer rates are rising among Gen Xers and millennials, a new study reports.
Successively younger generations are more frequently being diagnosed half of the 34 known cancer types, researchers found.
For example, people born in 1990 have two to three times higher...
Toxic heavy metals are found naturally worldwide in soils that produce the cocoa bean tree -- and those metals are showing up in chocolate, a new report warns.
“We all love chocolate but it’s important to indulge with moderation as with other foods that contain heavy metals, including large fish like tuna and unwashed brown rice,†explained lead author
Children from poor families are less likely to survive cancer, particularly if they are not white, a new study reports.
A childhood cancer patient’s risk of dying within five years of their diagnosis increases 4% for every one-point increase in their neighborhood...
Farmers and folks living in agricultural areas may be exposed to levels of pesticides that confer cancer risks that are higher than if they smoked, new research shows.
These extra risks were most pronounced for certain cancers: non-Hopkins lymphoma, leukemia and bladder cancer, the researchers noted.
Various pesticides mix together to raise the odds for cancer, noted study lead auth...
As good as many genetic tests might be, a deeper look at the DNA of over 44,000 people identified many who carried genes that hike their risks for cancer, researchers said.
"This study is a wake-up call, showing us that current national guidelines for genetic screenings are missing too many people at high risk of cancer," said lead author
Cancer growth can be fueled by flecks of ancient viral DNA lodged into the genetics of modern humans, a new study says.
Overall, about 8% of the human genome is made of bits of DNA left behind by viruses that infected our primate ancestors, researchers say.
Called “endogenous retroviruses,†these DNA fragments have long been considered harmless junk littering the modern ...
When it comes to health worries, cancer leads the way, a new poll shows.
The University of Cambridge poll included 2,000 adults who said their biggest concern is getting diagnosed with cancer when it's too late to treat it. Seven in 10 respondents have that fear, while 52% fret about the impact of a cancer diagnosis on loved ones.
"Cancer affects one in two of us and unde...
Nearly half of cancer deaths and 4 of 10 cases of cancer are linked to a person's lifestyle, a new study says.
Cigarette smoking remains the biggest cancer risk, contributing to 30% of cancer deaths and 20% of cancer cases, results show.
But excess body weight, drinking, lack of exercise, diet and skipping cancer-preventing vaccinations also increase a person's risk of developing or...
In yet another finding that touts the health benefits of wildly popular weight-loss medications like Wegovy and Ozempic, scientists report that taking the drugs may help reduce the risk of some cancers.
In a study published July 5 in JAMA Network Open, researchers found people with type 2...
American men are blowing their best chance to head off cancer or spot it early, when it's easiest to treat, a new survey warns.
More than 6 in 10 (65%) men in the nationwide survey said they are behind on at least one routine cancer screening, while nearly 1 in 5 admitted they don't even schedule their own health care appointments.
Those are the key findings from the annual
The Mediterranean diet can help cancer survivors maintain their heart health and live longer, a new study says.
Cancer patients whose eating patterns stuck closely to the Mediterranean diet tended to live longer and have a reduced risk of heart-related death, researchers report in the journa...
Simple exercises performed during rounds of chemotherapy can help people avoid nerve damage normally associated with the cancer-killing drugs, a new study suggests.
About twice as many cancer patients on chemo wound up with long-lasting nerve damage if they didn...
Ultrasound cannot reliably rule out endometrial cancer in Black women given how readings are now assessed, a new study argues.
Transvaginal ultrasound is commonly used to screen for cancer by measuring the thickness of the endometrium, the inner wall of the uterus.
<...MONDAY, July 1, 2024 (HealthDay news) -- A 14-year study of testicular cancer survivors suggests that a chemotherapy drug could greatly raise patients' long-term odds for hearing loss.
The drug in question, cisplatin, has been a mainstay of cancer chemotherapy for decades. It's often used to fight a range of cancers, including includ...
Losing weight can protect you against cancers related to obesity, a new study finds.
Obesity has been linked to higher risk of at least 13 types of cancer, researchers said. This is largely due to excess levels of hormones like estrogen and insulin.
But study results show that dropping pounds can improve a person's odds against developing these cancers, including
An experimental cancer treatment regimen is achieving full remissions in some patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma, researchers report.
The five-drug combination does not include chemotherapy. Rather, it simultaneously zeroes in on several molecular pathways that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) tumors rely on to survive. B-cell lymphoma is a cancer of cells in the body's i...
Nicotine pouches might be less harmful than smoking or chewing tobacco, but they still pose an addiction risk to users, a new review finds.
These pouches are filled with crystallized nicotine, and are placed between the gums and lips, researchers said. They are sold in various ...
Catherine, Princess of Wales, has released the first update on her cancer journey since announcing her diagnosis in late March.
In a message posted to her Instagram account on Friday, the princess, 42, said that, "I am making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days. On the ba...
Scientists have developed microscopic robots capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver chemotherapy directly to lung cancer cells.
In early testing, these microbots extended the average survival time of lab mice with melanoma that had spread to the lungs, according to a report publis...
CAR-T cell therapy to treat blood cancers is safer than previously thought, with little risk that the immunotherapy will create secondary cancers, a new study finds.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning in November 2023 about a risk of secondary cancers that might be associated with CAR-T cell therapy.
But a study of more than 700 patients treated at Stanford Univ...
Only a fraction of Americans are getting recommended lung cancer screenings, new research shows.
While rates overall are up slightly, fewer than 1 in 5 people who are eligible for screening are up-to-date with it, according to the American Cancer Society-led study.
The society and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommend a yearly computed tomography (CT) scan for peop...
Telemedicine visits for cancer care could help save the planet while also making things easier on patients, a new study has found.
Nationwide, cancer care could generate 33% less greenhouse gas emissions if it shifted to telemedicine from the traditional model of in-patient care, researchers repo...
A cutting-edge class of drugs is saving and extending the lives of cancer patients.
But the drugs, called immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), are so expensive that some uninsured Americans can't access them, a new report finds.
New policies are needed "to improve health insurance coverage options and to make new treatments more affordable," the American Cancer Society (ACS) said in...
While LGBTQ+ people have higher risk factors for cancer, they are apt to face discrimination when in need of high-quality medical care, a new report shows.
In particular, LGBTQ+ people have to worry that a health care provider will refuse to treat them due to their gender identity and sexual orientation, the American Cancer Society (ACS) report says.
That concern is particularly val...
Even as suicide rates have risen among Americans generally, one group appears to be bucking that trend: People diagnosed with cancer.
Experts are crediting improved access to counseling and other "psychosocial care" with easing the emotional toll of cancer and keeping more patients from making tragic decisions.
Nevertheless, cancer patients still face elevated risks for suicide, no...
Cancer patients receive less effective treatment at hospitals that mainly serve minority communities, a new study shows.
More than 9% of cancer patients are treated at hospitals where a significant percentage of patients are from minority groups, researchers say.
Those patients are less lik...
Research suggests that tattoo ink spurs inflammatory changes that might contribute to the development of lymphoma.
The findings are early, however, and more study must be done to confirm any links between tattooing and the blood cancer, Swedish researchers stressed.
"People will likely want to continue to express their identity through tattoos, and therefore it is very important tha...
A 4,000-year-old skull provides evidence that ancient Egyptians might have tried to treat cancer, a new study claims.
Microscopic observation of the skull revealed 30 or so lesions scattered across its surface that are consistent with cancer, researchers report.
T...
People battling advanced colon cancers might have a new treatment option that could extend their survival, a new trial finds.
A combination of two experimental immunotherapy drugs plus standard chemotherapy led to a median 19.7 month survival for patients, compared to the median 9.5 months observed among folks who only got a targeted therapy called regorafenib.
"These results...
An older drug used in a new way could open the path for more patients with potentially deadly blood cancers to receive a lifesaving stem cell transplant, a new study finds.
The drug, cyclophosphamide, could help patients receive a stem cell transplant even if the donor isn't a relative and only partially matches their blood type, researchers report.
Blood cancer patients had a high ...
Development and uptake of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine has been crucial in reducing rates of virus-linked cervical cancers in women.
Now, the accumulated data suggests the vaccine is saving men from fatal cancers, too.
Overall, men who got the vaccine [typically as boys]...
Gallbladder cancer rates are steadily increasing among Black Americans, even as they remain stable or decline for most other Americans, a new study warns.
Further, growing numbers of cases among Black people are not being diagnosed until later stages, according to the f...
Fertility treatments such as in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other methods don't boost the odds for tumor recurrence in young women who've survived breast cancer and carry the BRCA cancer genes, a reassuring, new report finds.
The issue had been in question because breast tissue can be sensitive to hormones and many assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs) involve a temporary boost...
Cutting-edge cancer treatments are essentially useless for patients barely clinging to life, a new study shows.
Chemotherapies, immunotherapies, targeted therapies and hormone therapies do not improve survival rates in patients with very advanced tumors near the end of life, according to findings...
Following a vegetarian or vegan diet might just buy you a longer, healthier life, a new review finds.
Staying away from meat was tied to a reduced risk of heart disease, cancer and early death, researchers reported in a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.
After combing through nearly 50 studies on ...