Cancer Currents
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Blog topics cover the biology of cancer, cancer risk, childhood cancer, clinical trial results, prognosis, screening & early detection, survivorship & supportive care, and treatment. National Cancer Institute (NCI) is the lead federal agency for cancer research.
Cancer Currents
17h ago
In a large clinical trial, treatment with pembrolizumab after surgery helped people with kidney cancer live longer than those who got a placebo and standard monitoring. The findings mark the first time an adjuvant treatment for kidney cancer has improved survival ..read more
Cancer Currents
6d ago
Assessing and offering people with cancer stepped collaborative care may help better manage symptoms of depression, pain, and fatigue than the standard referral to providers for treatment, according to a recent study ..read more
Cancer Currents
1w ago
In a new study involving nearly 1,000 people, a liquid biopsy accurately detected early- and late-stage pancreatic cancer. When paired with a test for the protein CA19-9, the combination accurately identified 97% of people with early-stage disease ..read more
Cancer Currents
2w ago
Trastuzumab deruxtecan (Enhertu) can now be used to treat any advanced solid cancer that produces high levels of the protein HER2 (HER2-positive tumors). FDA’s accelerated approval was based on findings from three clinical trials ..read more
Cancer Currents
2w ago
Gwendolyn Quinn, Ph.D., a health psychologist at NYU Langone Health Perlmutter Cancer Center, discusses the challenges faced by sexual and gender minority people being treated for cancer and ways to address them ..read more
Cancer Currents
1M ago
FDA approved mirvetuximab soravtansine-gynx (Elahere) to treat people with advanced, platinum-resistant ovarian cancer whose tumors overproduce a protein called FR-α. The full approval was based on the results of a large, randomized trial called MIRASOL, which showed Elahere improved survival for these people ..read more
Cancer Currents
1M ago
NCI-funded researchers have pinpointed a single type of the bacterium F. nucleatum that appears to fuel the development and growth of colorectal cancer. In mice, the bacterium, Fna C2, appeared to cause more adenomas to form in the large intestine and it was often found in human tumor samples ..read more
Cancer Currents
1M ago
For people with inherited changes in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, regular MRI scans and undergoing a surgery called a salpingo-oophorectomy appear to lower their chances of dying from breast and ovarian cancer, according to results from two studies ..read more
Cancer Currents
1M ago
NCI periodically provides updates on new websites and other online content of interest to the cancer community. See selected content that has been added as of April 2024 ..read more
Cancer Currents
1M ago
Although TP53 mutations help drive the growth of most cancers, there are no FDA-approved therapies that target altered p53 proteins. Now a drug combination has shown promise in mice and is being tested in a clinical trial ..read more