oncology

Bengaluru: The incidence of head and neck cancers is increasing in the city, according to medical experts. Nevertheless, the city has many world-class hospitals and medical facilities that are equipped to handle the diagnosis, treatment,…

If you've ever lost a dog to disease, it may well have been cancer. Some 4 million dogs in the U.S. are diagnosed with it every year, often the same kinds of cancers as humans get.  We share many of the same genes with our canine…

A novel immunotherapy combination has shown promise in children with relapsed leukemia.getty An innovative immunotherapy combination has shown a stunning 99% response rate in children with relapsed leukemia. The phase 2 trial, run jointly…

The UK's target to have fewer than 5% of adults smoking is set to be missed, according to a report ... from the UK's largest cancer charity.getty The U.K. government is set to miss an ambitious target to have fewer than 5% of the…

Medical Illustration of lung cancer - cancerous area in lungsgetty The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an injectable drug for use in lung cancer surgery. Cytalux, also known as pafolacianine is given to patients prior…

Patients with blood cancer can mount a T-cell response to Covid-19 vaccines, even in the absence of ... detectable antibodies, says a new study.getty Throughout the pandemic, evidence has been growing that for most people with cancer,…

People who believed in conspiracies, were not vaccinated for Covid-19 or preferred alternative to ... conventional medicine were less able to correctly identify real and mythical causes of cancer.getty Many people are unable to…

Why would an oncologist care about the biblical Christmas story? Early in medical school, as a religious 20-something, I found great comfort in molecular biology. Like Francis Collins, director of the human genome project, I intuited in DNA…

Doctor offers a drug that is personalized by a genomic test.getty At Illumina’s Genomics Forum conference this fall, former President Obama spoke about how precision medicine has a “considerable role to play in making the health system more…