FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug to treat patients with an advanced form of deadly lung cancer. Importantly, tarlatamab (Imdelltra) is only for patients who have exhausted all other options to treat extensive-stage small cell lung cancer.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, May 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cutting-edge cancer treatments are essentially useless for patients barely clinging to life, a new study shows. Chemotherapies, immunotherapies, targeted therapies and hormone therapies do not improve survival rates in patients with very advanced tumors near the end of life, according to findings publishedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Following a vegetarian or vegan diet might just buy you a longer, healthier life, a new review finds. Staying away from meat was tied to a reduced risk of heart disease, cancer and early death, researchers reported in a study published Wednesday inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Immunotherapy can boost the survival of early-stage lung cancer patients eligible for surgery when it’s combined with chemotherapy, a new clinical trial reports. Those who got immunotherapy before and after surgery — along with pre-surgical chemo — had a 42% lower risk ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — For anyone newly diagnosed with blood cancers known as lymphomas, their first question might be: What treatments can help? Of course, there have been big advances in chemotherapy against the disease, but treatments now go beyond chemo, said Mayo Clinic expert Dr. StephenContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a kit that will allow women to collect their own vaginal sample for HPV screening, a move that could increase early detection in those at risk for cervical cancer. Women will be able to swabContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. cancer death rates are continuing to drop, falling by 33% between 1991 and 2020. However, not all Americans are reaping the benefits from advances in cancer prevention, early detection and treatment, a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)Continue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Seniors over 80 with acute myeloid leukemia can safely and effectively take the standard targeted therapy for the blood cancer, a new study finds. The oral drug venetoclax is typically given to older AML patients whose bodies can’t handle the rigors of chemotherapy.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Melanoma, while rare among Black Americans, is often detected later with devastating consequences, a new study finds. Black people are frequently diagnosed with melanoma at later stages, increasing their risk of death compared to fairer-skinned patients, researchers found. Advanced stage 3 melanoma wasContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who smoke during pregnancy run a higher risk of their kids becoming overweight or obese, and researchers now think they know one reason why. Children born of moms who smoked while expecting tend to have gut bacteria that is significantly different fromContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Actress and “X-men” star Olivia Munn has revealed that she underwent egg retrieval and then a hysterectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer. In an article published on Mother’s Day, Munn told Vogue she opted for hysterectomy because it allowed her to avoidContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Chicago resident Arthur “Art” Gillespie fell ill in early March 2020 with COVID, after he and his father went to visit an uncle in a nursing facility. “I was hospitalized for 12 days with a high fever and cough, and during that time,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — For 14 years, David Perez fought fires in South Florida, thinking he was in peak physical shape. Then a routine physical turned up anomalies in his blood work that turned his life upside down. “The labs came back irregular. Everything was off,” Perez,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When cancer strikes, you could easily go into debt, even with health insurance in place, according to a new survey from the American Cancer Society. The survey, based on responses from nearly 1,300 cancer patients and survivors from March 18 through April 14,Continue Reading