The number of under-50s worldwide being diagnosed with cancer has risen by nearly 80 percent in three decades, according to the largest study of its kind.
A standard chemotherapy drug injures surrounding non-cancer cells, which can then awaken dormant cancer cells and promote cancer growth, according to a new study published in the open access journal PLoS Biology.
Bayer must pay $1.25 million to a man who sued the company alleging he developed cancer from exposure to its Roundup weedkiller, a jury in St. Louis, Missouri has found.
A higher proportion of patients are dying from non-melanoma skin cancer globally than melanoma, according to a press release from the European Academy of Dermatology and Venerology.
A California jury has found Bayer liable in a case brought by a man who says his cancer resulted from exposure to the weedkiller Roundup, and ordered the firm to pay $332 million in damages.
A multinational study of almost one million individuals confirms a strong and clear association between exposure to radiation from CT scans in young people and an increased risk of blood cancers.
Pfizer has stunned the medical world, completing the $43 billion acquisition of Seagen, a small drug company that treats so-called ‘turbo cancers’.
Authorities Retain Custody Of Texas Boy With Cancer Whose Parents Oppose Continued Chemotherapy
Authorities should retain custody of a 5-year-old Texas boy in order to continue chemotherapy treatments that his parents have resisted, a U.S. judge has ruled.