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Testing the blood of cancer patients for presence of metabolites can determine if a drug is effective or not. The method was first developed for pictilisib but researchers say it can also be used for other cancer therapi...

Scientists may have found a way to create non-allergenic peanuts. The discovery may pave the way for healthier peanut products that all people can eat.

Men with beer bellies and higher body mass index are at higher risk of developing aggressive prostate cancer than their counterparts, new research suggests. Researchers say maintaining a healthy weight is the best way to...

Some patients continue to use opioids months after a successful joint replacement surgery despite improvements in pain. What causes them to continue using prescription opioid painkillers?

Nearly 20 percent of women with ovarian cancer do not undergo surgery, despite it being a standard part of treatment recommendations, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pe...

(University Hospitals Case Medical Center) Researchers from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine will present data from several studies, including one that bui...

(University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center) Costs associated with different breast cancer chemotherapy regimens can vary significantly, regardless of effectiveness, according to new research from The University of...

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) A significant proportion of lung cancer patients also have autoimmune disease, which may make them unsuitable for increasingly popular immunotherapy treatments, a team of researchers at U...

(H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute) Moffitt Cancer Center will present preliminary results from a phase 1 study testing whether the addition of pembrolizumab to radiation therapy and bevacizumab is safe a...

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) The targeted therapy rucaparib, which has demonstrated robust clinical activity in ovarian cancer patients with a BRCA mutation, also showed promise in previously treated p...

(NYU Langone Medical Center / New York University School of Medicine) Patients who don't respond to treatments that use their own immune cells to destroy tumors, called tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, share changes in me...

(Cancer Research UK) HAVING radiotherapy once a day for six and a half weeks or twice a day for three weeks -- when combined with chemotherapy -- is equally good at treating small cell lung cancer that hasn't spread.

Authorities have concluded that Prince died of fentanyl overdose. The opioid is a potent painkiller that is said to be deadly even in small doses.