A project now underway takes aim at one of the most often-reported symptoms among cancer patients and survivors: Sleeplessness.

Early screening and intervention are essential to preventing chronic, disabling lymphedema (a side effect that can occur in patients being treated for cancer), according to Dr. Sheri Yolanda Prentiss, who added that patients should advocate for themselves to ensure proper monitoring and access to effective management strategies.

Teams manning government hotlines for reporting adverse events from foods, supplements and cosmetics, and call centers that provide other essential safety information were among the thousands of Health and Human Services Department employees laid off last week.

Nearly every American’s life has been touched by cancer in some way. The American Cancer Society estimates more than 2 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in 2025, with over 171,000 of those cases in Florida.

In a study published in JAMA Network Open, Dr. Emily L. Podany, Department of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, and colleagues reported on their findings from a multi-institutional cohort study that explored whether Black patients with metastatic breast cancer (mBC) have differences in genomic profiles compared with White patients and also sought to ascertain whether there are inequities in use of targeted treatment between these groups.

Nearly half of patients diagnosed with cancer in 2023 had a history of smoking, and 15% were smokers at the time of their diagnosis, according to new Yale Cancer Center-led research published in in JAMA Oncology.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health demonstrated a promising step toward using a person’s own immune cells to fight gastrointestinal cancers in a paper in Nature Medicine on Tuesday, the same day the agency was hit with devastating layoffs that left many NIH personnel in tears.

The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) commends Representatives Diana Harshbarger (R-TN-1) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL-25) for their leadership in reintroducing the “Seniors’ Access to Critical Medications Act” (H.R. 2484) along with original cosponsors Representatives Carol Miller (R-WV-01), Darren Soto (D-FL-09), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX-02), and Don Davis (D-NC-01).

One of the most common side effects of cancer treatments, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy, is fatigue.

Surgery might not be needed to treat as many as 60% of early-stage breast cancers, a new study says.