The most recent in a series of studies from a team at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has shown that a single molecule is at the heart of one of the most basic survival tactics of prostate cancer cells. A paper published today by the Public Library of Science identifies a [...]

A new class of investigational medicines may help to treat patients with cancers driven by mutations in genes such as BRAF or KRAS/NRAS, including those patients who have become resistant to therapies that target BRAF directly, according to preclinical data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, held in Washington, [...]

As many as three quarters of advanced ovarian cancer patients appeared to respond to a new two-step immunotherapy approach — including one patient who achieved complete remission — according research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that will be presented today in a press conference [...]

Just like a massive iceberg jutting out of the ocean, many of cancer’s genetic underpinnings remain hidden under the surface, impossible to predict or map from above. The foreboding shadows and shapes that appear on CT scans and MRIs – and even in the field that doctors see when they [...]

The George Washington University branch of Camp Kesem, a non-profit dedicated to helping the children of cancer patients, will host its Fifth Annual Share the Magic Dinner and Silent Auction on Wed., April 17 at 6:30 p.m. The event will be co-sponsored by the George Washington Cancer Institute. Share the [...]

For Betty Powers, a patient at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center in Lexington, Ky., that was the news she was given by her oncologist almost two years ago. In this video feature, Powers shares her story of why she decided to fight back by participating in a clinical [...]

Men with an inherited genetic condition called Lynch syndrome face a higher lifetime risk of developing prostate cancer and appear to develop the disease at an earlier age, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Lynch syndrome is an inherited condition [...]