"Cancer"

The US FDA approved a new treatment for non-small cell lung cancer - Tremelimumab + Durvalumab + platinum-based chemotherapy. The triple combination therapy significantly improves efficacy and patient survival and has a good safety profile.

Vocal cord cancer often leads to hoarseness, which is a common symptom of many diseases and can be easily overlooked by patients.

Pancreatic cancer is known to be a highly fatal and incurable type of cancer known as the "king of cancers". Currently, the only possible cure for pancreatic cancer is the complete surgical removal of the tumour tissue. Once the cancer has spread beyond the pancreatic organ, the patient's treatment options are very limited.

The University of Washington Medical Center owns and manages CUMG and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, which is a joint venture between the University of Washington Medical Center, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children's Hospital.

Many kidney cancer patients want to know whether the disease is hereditary. It is really necessary to learn more about the disease because kidney cancer is one of the common diseases nowadays, so let's take a look at whether kidney cancer can be passed on to the next generation. What abnormalities will kidney cancer cause in the body?

More than half of all women will have a lump or nodule in their breast, but most lumps and nodules are not cancer

Immunotherapy has been a very important treatment in recent years, with many patients in lung cancer, malignant melanoma and many other cancers experiencing dramatic improvements in prognosis with this cutting-edge therapy. In pancreatic cancer, however, progress in immunotherapy has been very slow and its effectiveness has been extremely limited.

The US FDA has approved Elacestrant, the first oral selective estrogen receptor degrader (SERD), for the treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic breast cancer who are estrogen receptor positive, HER2 negative and have an ESR1 mutation. Results of the trial showed that patients treated with Elacestrant had a 45% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death.

Silver fungus contains nitrates, which are converted into nitrites when they enter the body, and nitrites are carcinogenic.

Recent findings show that the use of cutting-edge immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy (referred to as immunotherapy in this article) has increased rapidly over the past decade in the population of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the survival benefit is more pronounced in younger people than in older people, who have limited survival benefit with this therapy.