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New study highlights systemic barriers to cancer treatment for women

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer has been one of the top two leading causes of death in the United States for 75 years. A recent international study revealed the unique challenges women with cancer can…

By Ali Rogin, Kaisha Young

What to know about screening, diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer

Nearly 300,000 American men are expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year alone, though most of those diagnosed don’t die from it. Ali Rogin speaks with Dr. Charles Ryan, a genitourinary oncologist and head of the Prostate Cancer…

By Ali Rogin, Winston Wilde

For this Nobel winner, fighting cancer began with his family

Cancer treatment was for years dominated by just four techniques. But there is now a fifth category -- immunotherapy -- thanks to the revolutionary research of Jim Allison and Tasuku Honjo, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine on…

Poor women more likely to lose jobs during breast cancer treatment, study finds

The new study also found overall between 20 and 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer will lose their jobs.

By Kate Sheridan, STAT

Treatment with hallucinogenic mushroom drug shows promise for patients with deep anxiety

By Caleb Hellerman, Global Health Reporting Center

It was mid-morning when Carol Vincent, the owner of a small marketing firm in Victoria, British Columbia, sat down and swallowed a capsule full of pure, synthesized psilocybin. Many people are familiar with the “natural” version, found in so-called magic…

Experimental therapy trains immune cells to hunt and kill blood cancers

By PBS NewsHour

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New cancer treatments target disease-causing mutations

By PBS NewsHour

Some cutting-edge research is giving new hope to cancer patients. Researchers are zeroing in on the causes of specific cancers and are finding dramatically different ways to fight the disease. To explain the latest findings, Dr. David Hyman from the…

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How playing with dangerous x-rays led to the discovery of radiation treatment for cancer

By Dr. Howard Markel

When the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s announced his discovery of the x-ray in December of 1895, he was lauded on the front page of just about every newspaper in the world. Indeed, many journalists called this phenomenon “X-Ray…

Extended Interview: Janet Woodcock Discusses Cancer Biomarkers

Dr. Janet Woodcock, chief medical officer of the Food and Drug Administration, discusses how cancer biomarkers may change cancer screening and treatment.

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