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How Immunotherapy Can Treat Lung Cancer​

GoodRx Health: Medical Info From Healthcare Experts, Savings Tips & Health News - GoodRx

The health answers you need, written by doctors, pharmacists and healthcare experts. Read the latest medical information, savings tips, drug news and more from GoodRx.

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How to turn T cells against solid tumours​

How to turn T cells against solid tumours

Cell therapies have transformed the treatment of certain haematological cancers. What will it take for them to be effective against solid tumours?

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Twelve cancer research breakthroughs we made in 2020​

12 Cancer Research Breakthroughs Of 2020

Find out more about the amazing discoveries that our scientists made in 2020 thanks to your support that could lead to new cures for cancer

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Promising rectal cancer study

Promising rectal cancer study

A scientist comments on the evolving treatment of rectal cancer in light of findings from a study that found the immunotherapy drug dostarlimab was especially effective in a phase II clinical trial of a dozen patients with a subtype of rectal cancer.

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DCA and Cancer: Unproven Cancer Treatment

Scientists are researching dichloroacetate (DCA) as a cancer treatment. Until the results are proven, people should avoid this alternative cancer treatment.

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Cancer Statistics

Cancer Data and Statistics | CDC

In the United States in 2019, 1,752,735 new cancer cases were reported and 599,589 people died of cancer.

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Statistics: 10 million deaths a year

Cancer

Cancer is a generic term for a large group of diseases that can affect any part of the body.

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QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates* from Cancer,† by U.S. Census Region§ and Year — United States, 1970–2013

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An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States

Cancer death rates dropped 27% in the United States from 2001 to 2020.

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PD-1 Blockade in Mismatch Repair–Deficient, Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer | NEJM

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — PD-1 Blockade in Mismatch Repair–Deficient, Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer

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A Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient

The study was small, and experts say it needs to be replicated. But for 18 people with rectal cancer, the outcome led to “happy tears.”

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CRC Screening: Blood Test Accuracy Compared to Colonoscopy

More than 550 people had blood taken at the time of colonoscopy to judge the sensitivity and specificity of a serum assay.

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Galleri® | Multi-Cancer Early Detection Test

The Galleri test detects a cancer signal shared by more than 50 types of cancer through a simple blood draw, giving you the power of early detection to proactively protect your health.

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Test can detect 50 types of cancer before you have symptoms and you can get it locally

Galleri finds the DNA, those genetic markers from cancer, that are in the blood.

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Raw garlic consumption and lung cancer in a Chinese population

Evidence of anti-cancer properties of garlic for different cancer sites has been reported previously in in-vitro and in-vivo experimental studies but there is limited epidemiological evidence on the association between garlic and lung cancer.We examined ...

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Scientists create nanoparticle that helps fight solid tumors

Researchers have discovered a possible new approach in treating solid tumors through the creation of a novel nanoparticle.

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Exercise Gains Traction as a Way to Fight Cancer

A growing pile of research shows that physical activity is one of the best things you can do to fight a cancer diagnosis

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Physical Activity and Cancer Fact Sheet

A fact sheet that summarizes evidence linking physical activity (including exercise) to reduced cancer risk and sedentary behavior (including prolonged sitting) to increased cancer risk.

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The Cancer Miracle Isn’t a Cure. It’s Prevention.

We cannot treat our way out of the rising trend in cancer cases. The only solution is a full-scale defense, so that nobody suffers the disease in the first place.

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Improving Immunotherapy: Overcoming ‘Exhausted’ T Cells

Researchers have identified proteins that may play a central role in T cell exhaustion. The findings could lead to strategies for boosting cancer immunotherapies.

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Few people actually benefit from 'breakthrough' cancer immunotherapy

The hype around immunotherapy — it's a "miracle" or "breakthrough" — hides the fact that it can currently help only about 10 percent of people with cancer.

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Cancer breakthrough: Exercise may stop disease in its tracks

New research from Edith Cowan University shows bed and rest might not be the best treatment for people suffering from cancer – in fact, the opposite may be true. ECU researchers have discovered the proteins created by the body when exercising - called myokines – can suppress tumour growth and...

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Severe Breakthrough Infections; New Type of CAR-T Therapy; Global Cancer Toll Rises

News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues

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Cure for cancer? Leukemia vanishes after breakthrough therapy

In a recent study, two people with leukemia were cancer-free a decade after receiving a type of immunotherapy called CAR T-cell therapy.

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