She added, 'It's really just a whole new paradigm in lung cancer, and patients are living much longer and cure rates are higher than they were 10 to 20 years ago.' On Wednesday, Leo resumed his regular diet, began walking, and celebrated Mass in the hospi... See more
In a way, Pope Leo XIV may be lucky he got lung cancer now and not, say, six years ago. Treatments have changed so much, specialists say, that the old days are almost unrecognizable. For many patients, said Karen Knudsen, the chief executive of the Parker... See more
A new type of cancer treatment -- vaccines -- is so promising that it demands a national effort to expedite discoveries, said Dr. Anthony Letai, director of the National Cancer Institute. "We can do things that would not otherwise be done," he said of new... See more
A new type of cancer treatment — vaccines — is so promising that it demands a national effort to expedite discoveries, said the director of the National Cancer Institute, Dr. Anthony Letai. 'We can do things that would not otherwise be done,' he said of n... See more
John Ebers outside the Michigan Bee Co. barn in Comstock Park, Mich., Sept. 11, 2026. When Ebers was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer, he was not given the option of genetic testing, which could have revealed if there were drugs that could attack ... See more