By attaching a chemotherapy drug to an antibody, doctors are able to deliver more potent cancer-fighting medicines directly into tumor cells, all while causing fewer side effects.

People who vaped and smoked cigarettes appeared four times more likely to develop lung cancer compared with those who only smoked, according to study results presented at American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

Perioperative chemotherapy (treatment around the time of surgery) with chemotherapies demonstrated survival benefits, compared with neoadjuvant (presurgical) chemoradiation in patients with surgically removable locally advanced esophageal cancer, according to a phase 3 trial.

There is more hope than ever for people diagnosed with the deadliest cancer.

The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) has submitted comments encouraging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to work with cancer care stakeholders to arrive at real, actionable solutions to improve Medicare Advantage (MA) and bolster access to quality, cost-effective cancer care.

A University of Texas at Arlington researcher has taken a closer look at why certain groups of Texans aren’t getting invaluable health care screenings.

The next frontier in cancer detection could be the humble urine test.

Treatment with laparoscopic hemihepatectomy (resection, or surgical removal with small incisions, of half of a patient’s liver), resulted in shorter recovery time, higher quality of life and, for patients with cancer, a shorter time until the start of adjuvant (postsurgical) systemic therapy when compared with open hemihepatectomy, researchers have found.

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Larry Bucshon, MD (R-IN-08), Buddy Carter (R-GA-01), and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-01) introduced the 340B Affording Care for Communities and Ensuring a Strong Safety-Net Act (340B ACCESS Act).

Although Aricept (donepezil), a cognition-enhancing drug commonly prescribed for Alzheimer’s disease, did not decrease the effects of chemotherapy-induced cognitive impairment in breast cancer survivors, one researcher said there is still hope, according to an expert.