The word myeloma stems from the Greek word “myelos,” for marrow. Indeed, this type of blood cancer begins in the plasma cells, a type...
Numerous studies have shown that individuals with cancer fare worse than the general population if they contract COVID-19, with...
As infections from SARS-CoV-2 began to rapidly spread across the United States in early 2020, many nonessential medical procedures, including cancer screenings, were...
The first AACR virtual meeting of 2021, held Jan. 11-12, focused on the tumor microenvironment, the complex framework of...
Members of the LGBTQ community face staggering rates of discrimination in the United States. According to data from the...
In the early 1970s, German virologist Harald zur Hausen, MD, FAACR, defied the dogma that cervical cancer was caused by the herpes simplex...
Thirty years ago, Mary-Claire King, PhD, FAACR, and colleagues were the first to demonstrate that breast cancer could be genetically inherited....
Roughly 6 percent of men and women in the United States will be diagnosed with lung and bronchus cancer...
Unlike cancer incidence rates overall, which are decreasing in the United States, the incidence rate of liver cancer has been increasing...
Pancreatic cancer is notoriously challenging to treat, due largely to the fact that the disease is often diagnosed after...