The immune systems of cancer patients are highly disrupted, with those who have a higher number of immune cells in their blood having a better survival rate, finds a new study that uses a pioneering ...

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has released Cancer Statistics for African American and Black People, 2025. According to the report, the cancer mortality rate declined from 1991 to 2022 by 49% and ...

Immune therapy has transformed how cancer is treated, but many tumors continue to evade these treatments, thanks to their resemblance to healthy tissue.

Hasbro Children's Hospital treats between 60 to 70 new pediatric cancer patients annually. The overall five-year survival rate for children with cancer is now upwards of 80%, thanks to ...

Several factors contribute to cancer rates, from personal habits and genetics to air pollution or groundwater quality in a given area. People experiencing social, economic, or environmental ...

The below chart from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital outlines the normal range of beats per minute for resting heart rate, based on age. Target heart rate refers to a range of heart beats per ...

By improving access to diagnostics and treatments, we aim to transform the landscape of cancer outcomes on the continent. Early detection plays a critical role in improving survival outcomes ...

average survival remains six to 10 months for those who develop brain metastases. Although the cancer growth rate may be unpredictable, the end-of-life process follows a somewhat expected pattern.

In the past doctors may have put stark differences in survival down to luck ... of the disease - extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, the brain cancer glioblastoma, and metastatic pancreatic ...

The primary endpoint was pathological complete response (pCR) rates, which refers to the absence of detectable cancer cells in ... into better event-free survival (EFS) – how long a patient ...

Although ctDNA positivity generally meant worse disease-free survival in stage 3 resected colon cancer, patients with ctDNA who received Celebrex had significantly better rates versus placebo. While ...