A new study shows that patients who miss radiation therapy sessions during cancer treatment have an increased risk that their cancer will return, even if they complete their course of radiation treatment.
Check out our revised fact sheet on cancer vaccines, which we’ve reorganized and updated. We’ve also added new information about immune system modulators.
We’ve renamed our PDQ Oral Cavity Prevention summary and revised it to include information on oropharyngeal cancer prevention. We’ve also updated the sections on risk factors and protective factors.
We’ve added a new drug information summary for the drug combination known as CEM (carboplatin, etoposide, and melphalan). It is used to treat high-risk neuroblastoma.
We’ve added the recent approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the use of this drug to treat a certain type of breast cancer in women whose disease has gotten worse after treatment with hormone therapy.
Often called colorectal cancer, this cancer starts in the colon or rectum. March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Learn more about this third most common type of cancer in both men and women in the United States.
Certain popular ideas about how cancer starts and spreads can seem to make sense, even though they are not true. This page provides the latest science-based information about some common cancer myths and misconceptions.
