Jun 23, 2025
Two-in-one treatment targets ‘undruggable’ lung cancer“Takeshi Shimamura, an associate professor of surgery in the College of Medicine, sees cancer as a many-headed monster: adaptive, relentless and difficult to eradicate. Thwarting its progress is his Herculean...
Jun 9, 2025
Cassidy, Van Hollen Introduce Life-Saving Hepatitis C Legislation“WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) introduced life-saving legislation to cure low-income and hard-to-reach Americans with hepatitis C virus (HCV). Cassidy...
Jun 9, 2025
Detailing the Potential Benefit of Intratumoral Therapies in Lung Cancer“Key Takeaways: JNJ-1900 enhances radiation therapy effects while minimizing damage to healthy lung tissue, offering a promising approach for lung cancer treatment. Intratumoral therapies can...
Jun 4, 2025
Colon cancer recurrence and deaths cut 28% by simple exercise, trial finds“Exercise is generally good for you, but a new high-quality clinical trial finds that it’s so good, it can even knock back colon cancer—and, in fact, rival some chemotherapy...
Jun 2, 2025
Free hepatitis C, HIV and syphilis testing for the month of June “Southeastern Idaho Public Health will be offering free hepatitis C, HIV and syphilis testing to individuals throughout the month of June in all their county locations. Testing only takes a few minutes,...
Jun 2, 2025
Sensome Announces Enrollment Completion in First-in-Human Study of In Situ Tumor Detection System for Lung Cancer“PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#bronchoscopy–Sensome, the pioneer of microsensing technology for real-time, intra-operative tissue analysis,...
May 28, 2025
Vaping cannabis found to expose lung cells to toxic and cancer-linked substances“Is vaping cannabis less harmful to your health than smoking it? Many people seem to think so. However, two studies conducted at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health...
May 27, 2025
Hepatitis C Rates Are Stubbornly High—Here’s What It’ll Take to Lower Them“In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) set a goal for hepatitis C (HCV), an infection causing inflammation in the liver, to be eliminated by 2030. (Elimination was defined as a 90%...
May 27, 2025
AI model predicts future lung cancer risk from a single low-dose chest CT scan“A deep learning model was able to predict future lung cancer risk from a single low-dose chest CT scan, according to new research published at the ATS 2025 International Conference. The...
May 13, 2025
Comorbidities in midlife have distinct associations with cancer development“Key takeaways: Respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic conditions increased risk for cancer incidence. All comorbidity types increased risk for at least one cancer type, but some seemed to...
