Dennis Schmidt started smoking as a teenager, when that was so unexceptional that his Catholic high school designated outdoor “senior smoking quarters,” where students in their final year could take cigarette breaks. He smoked a pack of menthols daily for nearly 40 years. As a registered nurse at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center and […]
Economic hardship is a lingering consequence of Brooke’s breast cancer treatment, more than 30 years ago – which she paid for by selling her wedding ring. The treatment left her debilitated, fatigued and unable to work for some time. Friends brought groceries and the Cancer Council provided some financial support, but Brooke needed to scrounge […]
Liver cancer is one of the fastest rising causes of cancer-related deaths in the UK, and the third leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. More than 6,000 people die from liver cancer in the UK each year. Its major drivers are largely preventable, but public awareness of the scale of the problem remains low. Most […]
You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than that. Rather, cancer is a tightly controlled cellular neighborhood that can keep the body’s defenses out or weaken them once they get in. Cancer behaves like a gated community. It has its own […]
London: Doctors on Saturday praised “unprecedentedly strong responses” to an injection that eradicated entire tumours in otherwise treatment-resistant cancer cases during a trial. It shrank the tumours for 42% of patients in the study by the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London. Scientists gave amivantamab to people with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck […]
CHICAGO: Treatments based on the same mRNA technology that delivered COVID-19 vaccines to market in record time are showing lasting benefit against the deadly skin cancer melanoma and early promise in pancreatic and brain cancers once considered impervious to immune system assault. The apparent breakthroughs in cancer vaccines – deemed one of the fastest-growing segments […]
