June 7, 2019, by NCI Staff Smoldering myeloma is a slow-growing type of multiple myeloma, a form of cancer in which abnormal plasma cells (purple) make too much of a single type […]
CC Staff
New Therapies Aim to Lessen Side Effects in Children
JUNE 4, 2019 NFCR WRITER DAVID PERRY BLOG Ask any parent about their child fighting cancer and words like “nightmare” and “helpless” will almost certainly be part of the conversation. Within pediatric cancer medicine, the […]
Annual Report to the Nation: Overall Cancer Mortality Continues to Decline; Special Section on Adults ages 20 to 49 shows higher cancer incidence and mortality for women than men
The latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that, for all cancer sites combined, cancer death rates continued to decline in men, women, and children in the […]
Soligenix and the Creation of Rare Cancer Drugs
Soligenix is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat rare diseases where there is currently an unmet medical need. Soligenix is a biotherapeutic business segment dedicated to […]
Study shows incidence rates of aggressive subtypes of uterine cancer rising
New findings from a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, show that U.S. incidence rates for aggressive subtypes of uterine cancer rose […]
The Cancer Progress Report
The Cancer Progress Report delivers crisp headlines of progress at emerging companies developing, in many cases, breakthroughs. It is a fast and efficient must read for anyone serious in the field. For […]
Travera
A new diagnostic technology can predict how patients will respond different drugs or drug combinations before the patients take the drugs. Overview Travera is using a breakthrough technology to measure which cancer […]
Ronald DePinho: The Age of Cancer
“For me, this is one of the great honors of my research career,” says Dr. Ronald DePinho, who in 2009 won the prestigious Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research—and who has […]