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Blood test for stomach cancer first step to ending all cancer deaths by 2048, says its Singapore-based co-inventor
MiRXES, the biotech company behind the GastroClear test, aims to boost patients’ prognosis for s…
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A cancer startup just raised millions from a pharmaceutical giant, and it could be where the industry is headed
A quick scan of Roche's pipeline shows 34 drugs in development that have never been approved (also …
Lydia Ramsey
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Watson Is Moving Beyond 'Jeopardy!' To Improve Cancer Treatment
"The concept is while Sloan Kettering, and MD Andersen, and the Cleveland Clinic are fabulous insti…
Max Nisen
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Group of oncologists launch free-of-cost second opinion helpline number for cancer patients
Cancer patients can call on this number to speak to oncologists directly or even do a video call…
PTI
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A former biotech executive who's living with terminal cancer wants to reset expectations about new cancer treatments
The majority of the patients who got a checkpoint inhibitor, called nivolumab, don't respond to tre…
Lydia Ramsey
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Gilead just made a $4.9 billion bet on cancer-drug maker Forty Seven, whose stock skyrocketed 62%
Best known for its treatments for conditions like HIV and hepatitis C, Foster City, California-base…
Lydia Ramsey
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Stage IV breast cancer can't be cured, but you still have options to treat your cancer
Note: Most breast cancer statistics focus on people assigned female at birth, but people of any gen…
Emily Swaim
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Brazilian soccer legend Pelé died of colon cancer. Here are the cutting-edge clinical trials trying to find new treatments for the disease.
Pelé, a legendary Brazilian soccer player, died of colon cancer. These clinical trials are studying…
Sarah Braner
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A 40-year-old woman had heart palpitations and thought it was because she worked out too hard. She was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Lindsay Gavin, 40, went to the hospital for heart palpitations. She was diagnosed with stage 4 panc…
Julia Pugachevsky
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Larry Ellison is donating $200 million to Steve Jobs' former doctor for a new kind of cancer treatment institute
But this new treatment center will be different. It will research and try new cancer treatments by …
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The hottest thing in cancer drug development just won a $9 billion endorsement
If approved, JCAR017 would compete with Yescarta, which is already approved for DLBCL. DLBCL will l…
Lydia Ramsey
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Major study suggests we may have been treating one of the most common cancers all wrong
This brings the lead author of the study, Dr. Steven Narod, to a strategy that many might find surp…
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We spoke with a key Merck executive about the strategy for its top cancer drug, a $7 billion powerhouse that could soon bring in more than $20 billion
The drugmaker has also tried to reach cancers that haven't responded well to other medicines with c…
Emma Court
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Novel therapy might be effective for different types of cancers, according to study
A team of researchers has developed a novel therapy that could be effective for different types of …
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I thought my bloody stool during pregnancy was hemorrhoids. It was stage 3 colorectal cancer.
Kelly Spill had bloody stool during pregnancy and figured it was due to hemorrhoids. She was diagno…
Kelly Burch
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In 200 years, people might see this common medical practice as totally barbaric
"Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have," Klosterman says. "But let's…
Chris Weller
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Regeneron's coming late to a group of drugs that's already worth billions - here's why the company thinks it can still compete
If it turns out that finding the cancers that are driven by the immune system is key to getting imm…
Lydia Ramsey
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I had no idea that men could get breast cancer. Then, I was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer.
Men can get breast cancer, a man learned after ignoring a lump that turned out to be stage 4. Male …
Kelly Burch
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Investors including Google Ventures poured $93 million into a company that's building personalized cancer vaccines
Gritstone CEO Dr. Andrew Allen told Business Insider that the round would help set the company up t…
Lydia Ramsey
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The FDA just approved a treatment that kills cancer with a virus
Almost 92% of people with skin cancer are still alive five years after their diagnosis, but this fi…