Nutritionists and doctors agree that consuming soda, whether diet or regular, can be harmful to your health. It is associated with weight gain, poor dental health, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Is there a link between cancer and soda?
Why are clinical trials so important? Clinical trials are the only way to rigorously assess the safety and efficacy of new cancer drugs or drug combinations. Geoffrey Shapiro, MD, PhD, answers common questions about clinical trials and how they help improve cancer treatment.
The FDA issued 18 approvals for blood cancer therapies in 2017, and oncologists are excited about the increased options available to patients, and about the promise of even more new therapies to come.
CAR T-cell therapy represents one of the biggest advances against cancer in recent years. In clinical trials, it has produced remissions in more than 80 percent of patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and nearly half of patients with B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). But, if researchers are right, these therapies' potential has only begun to be exploited.
Cancer biologists have identified a key molecular event that leads to synovial sarcoma, a rare, aggressive cancer in adolescents and young adults for which scientists are seeking better treatments.
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