“Liquid biopsies” make headlines for their potential to detect multiple cancers in their earliest stages, but it’s too soon to tell whether the tests are accurate and safe enough for widespread use, ...

Science News Virtual Diet and Exercise Program Can Help Reduce Side Effects of Lymphoma Treatment Patients who participated in the program had lower rates of anxiety, depression, pain and fatigue as ...

Joseph Unger, PhD, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and colleagues looked at data from the National Institutes of Health’s ClinicalTrials.gov registry from 2008 to 2024 to identify U.S. trials of ...

Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder, affecting around 100,000 individuals in the United States and one out of every 365 Black or African American births. It is ...

One day at the office, I developed a dull pain in my right lower abdomen that grew in intensity. I checked into the emergency room. My gallbladder was infected and had to come out. When I was in the ...

Bone sarcoma, or primary bone cancer, originates in the bone tissue. It doesn’t include cancer that starts elsewhere in the body and spreads to the bones. Sarcomas also occur in soft connective ...

Mary Jane Minkin, MD, is codirector of the Sexuality, Intimacy & Menopause Program at Yale Medicine’s Smilow Cancer Hospital. She shares an encouraging message.

These results come on the heels of data presented at ASCO showing that another antibody-drug conjugate, Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca’s Enhertu (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan), improved progression-free ...

New York artist Pauline Decarmo transforms several bouts with cancer—and debilitating side effects—into paintings and a lifestyle that inspire.

Treatment with an immune and cancer cell-targeting antibody therapy eradicates residual traces of the blood cell cancer multiple myeloma, according to interim results from a clinical trial conducted ...

While awareness of the role of physical activity in cancer survivors has increased, reducing sedentary behavior has been less emphasized. Studies indicate that cancer survivors with more sedentary ...

Families fighting childhood leukemia often battle another hardship: poverty. Researchers at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center show that one in three families of children ...