#breast cancer

An advisory panel reviewed follow-up data on checkpoint inhibitors, voting to maintain four approvals and rescind two.

The early cancer is detected, the easier it is to treat.

Excess weight, which is often linked to metabolic abnormalities, can contribute to a wide variety of health problems.

The risk was around 1.5 times higher for cancers of the breast and lungs and the gastrointestinal, gynecological and urinary systems.

The decrease is largely due to improved lung cancer treatment, but the impact of COVID-19 is not yet known.

New report highlights cancer’s toll on racial and ethnic minorities and other underserved populations.

Cancer mortality fell by 29% between 1991 and 2017, largely driven by a decline in lung cancer deaths.

Cancer mortality declined by 27 percent over the past 25 years.

Liver fat may be a driver of increased cancer risk associated with obesity.

Alcohol is linked to several types of cancer, especially among people over 50, but the absolute risk of light drinking is low.

Ideally, all patients with advanced cancers would be in clinical trials. Until then, the right to try is an option we all should have.

Right to Try bills attack the one agency tasked with verifying the safety and efficacy of medications.

Additionally, among those with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, indicators of liver fibrosis are associated with cancer.