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June 7, 2024, 12:53 AM ET (News-Medical)
'Artificial lymph node' shows potential to treat cancer
June 6, 2024, 7:12 AM ET (Washington Post)
'Unusual' cancers emerged after the pandemic. Doctors ask if covid is to blame.
June 5, 2024, 11:36 AM ET (Medical Xpress)
Researcher discovers that endometriosis tricks the immune system in the same way cancer does
June 4, 2024, 7:20 AM ET (The Hill)
As obesity rates surge, so do cancer cases: Study
May 30, 2024, 5:41 AM ET (News-Medical)
Statins may block an inflammation pathway involved in the development of cancer
cancer, group of more than 100 distinct diseases characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Though cancer has been known since antiquity, some of the most significant advances in scientists’ understanding of it have been made since the middle of the 20th century. Those advances led to major improvements in cancer treatment, mainly through the development of methods for timely and accurate diagnosis, selective surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapeutic drugs, and targeted therapies (agents designed against specific molecules involved in cancer). Advances in treatment have succeeded in bringing about a decrease in cancer deaths, though mainly in ...(100 of 21846 words)