FRIDAY, June 28, 20204 (HealthDay news) — An immunotherapy/chemotherapy combo drug can help early-stage breast cancer patients remain cancer-free following treatment, a new trial shows. The combo drug, Kadcyla, is already approved to treat patients with advanced HER2-positive breast cancer, researchers said. The new results show that stage 1 breastContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Losing weight can protect you against cancers related to obesity, a new study finds. Obesity has been linked to higher risk of at least 13 types of cancer, researchers said. This is largely due to excess levels of hormones like estrogen and insulin.Continue Reading
MONDAY, June 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Giving people with pancreatic cancer chemotherapy both before and after a tumor-removing surgery brought better outcomes than if they got the drugs only after the surgery, new research shows. Researchers at the Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Yale School of Medicine focused onContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. children with inoperable brain tumors appear to die sooner and find it harder to get care if they live in poorer neighborhoods, a new study finds. Children from higher-income areas had more than double the average survival time than kids from poorerContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An experimental cancer treatment regimen is achieving full remissions in some patients with aggressive B-cell lymphoma, researchers report. The five-drug combination does not include chemotherapy. Rather, it simultaneously zeroes in on several molecular pathways that diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) tumors rely onContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Prostate medications might help reduce the risk of a specific type of dementia, a new study suggests. People were less likely to develop Lewy body dementia when taking drugs designed to treat urinary symptoms caused by an enlarged prostate, researchers reported June 19Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new AI-driven blood test could improve detection of liver cancer, which is one of the most fatal cancers because early diagnosis is difficult. The test looks for “fusion genes” — two different genes that have become bound together, producing proteins that canContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nicotine pouches might be less harmful than smoking or chewing tobacco, but they still pose an addiction risk to users, a new review finds. These pouches are filled with crystallized nicotine, and are placed between the gums and lips, researchers said. They areContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Catherine, Princess of Wales, has released the first update on her cancer journey since announcing her diagnosis in late March. In a message posted to her Instagram account on Friday, the princess, 42, said that, “I am making good progress, but as anyoneContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have developed microscopic robots capable of swimming through the lungs to deliver chemotherapy directly to lung cancer cells. In early testing, these microbots extended the average survival time of lab mice with melanoma that had spread to the lungs, according to a reportContinue Reading