Taking vitamin D supplements might reduce the risk of colitis in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors to treat their cancer, found a US study.
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People with cancer sickened by COVID-19 have a crude death rate of 13%, according to the largest series of data released thus far from a multinational perspective. The...
April 8th, 2020
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of...
June 26th, 2019Eating two or more weekly servings of yoghurt is associated with lower risk of developing the adenomas which precede the development of bowel cancer – at least in men...
June 5th, 2019The phase III ENZAMET trial found that 80% of men with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer who received the non-steroidal anti-androgen (NSAA) medicine...
A recently published modelling study estimates that there are almost 400,000 new cases of childhood cancer annually, while current records count only around 200,000. The...
January 16th, 2019Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, one of the world’s leading research institutions, has announced that it would bar its top executives from serving on corporate...
Health care leaders have for years been calling for patients to have a greater say in their care, but, dishearteningly, doctors’ beliefs outweigh patient values at the...
March 7th, 2018People with stage III colon cancer who regularly eat nuts are at significantly lower risk of cancer recurrence and mortality than those who don't, according to a large,...
September 27th, 2017In most clinical trials for cancer therapy, investigators test treatments in patients with advanced disease. But a recent cardiovascular secondary prevention study has...
