The diagnosis of a suspected lung, head, and neck cancer called NUT carcinoma should include additional testing capable of detecting gene fusions that are definitive markers of the disease, according ...

A study linked fine-particle air pollution and other environmental factors to genetic changes in people with lung cancer who never smoked.

For any sarcoma treatment, Schaub and her radiation oncology colleagues consider proton therapy on a case-by-case basis and take many factors into consideration, including the location of the tumor.

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies involve taking immune cells, called T cells, from a patient and engineering them to make a protein that lets them recognize and attack the patient’s ...

Half of the $10 billion each year will be distributed evenly across states that have applied for it. The other half can be distributed by the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & ...

Here's a list of the approved drugs to treat stomach cancer. Click on any of the medications for more info on indications, dosing and side effects. Keytruda is a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor approved for ...

The NIH's National Cancer Institute, which has long benefited from bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians and scientists.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that two common types of hormone therapy may alter breast cancer risk in women before age 55. Researchers discovered that women treated ...

The tax and spending bill cuts more than $1 trillion from Medicaid, the public health insurance program for people with low incomes that’s jointly funded by states and the federal government. Under ...

Most patients with advanced melanoma who received pre-surgical immunotherapy remain alive and disease free four years later ...

PPP2R1A mutations could be a valuable biomarker to help guide treatment and may offer a new therapeutic target.

Yet in its feverish purge of federal health programs, it has proposed eliminating the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its annual funding of $1.4 billion. That’s ...