FDA Approves Marketing of DNA Test for Cancer Predisposition
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FDA Approves Marketing of DNA Test for Cancer Predisposition
2023-10-03 20:02:44
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has granted de novo marketing authorization for the Invitae Common Hereditary Cancers Panel, an in vitro diagnostic test that can help detect hundreds of genetic variants associated with an elevated risk of developing... Read More

Vaccine May Help Reduce Relapse in High-Risk Melanoma Patients
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Vaccine May Help Reduce Relapse in High-Risk Melanoma Patients
2023-04-18 23:28:30
by TWN Staff

ORLANDO, Fla. — A personalized mRNA-based cancer vaccine, when combined with Merck cancer therapy Keytruda, resulted in a statistically significant improvement in recurrence-free survival in people who had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, compared with using Keytruda alone. That... Read More

Report Finds Cancer Deaths Continue Downward Trend
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Report Finds Cancer Deaths Continue Downward Trend
2022-11-15 16:34:11
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — The death rate from most cancers continued to decline over a four-year period extending from 2015 to 2019, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the State of Cancer from the National Institutes of Health.... Read More

Biden Urges Americans to Come Together for Cancer Fight
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Biden Urges Americans to Come Together for Cancer Fight
2022-09-13 15:29:40
by Dan McCue

BOSTON — President Joe Biden traveled to Boston, Massachusetts, Monday in a bid to rekindle memories of John F. Kennedy’s famous challenge to land an American on the moon and made a similar call for Americans to embrace the goal... Read More

Rep. Hagedorn of Minnesota Dies After Cancer Battle
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Rep. Hagedorn of Minnesota Dies After Cancer Battle
2022-02-18 16:23:34
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Hagedorn, R-Minn., died Thursday night after a two-year-long battle with kidney cancer. His wife, former Minnesota GOP Chair Jennifer Carnahan, made the announcement Friday morning via her Facebook page. The congressman was 59. In a post... Read More

Arsenic in Rice a Persistent Problem and Climate Change Could be Making it Worse
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Arsenic in Rice a Persistent Problem and Climate Change Could be Making it Worse
2021-08-18 21:23:16
by Alexa Hornbeck

A recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reviews decades of efforts by scientists to get arsenic out of rice.  Arsenic, in inorganic form, is a pollutant which can stem from industrial processes and pesticides,... Read More

House, Senate Pass Bills to Study the Number of Cancers Striking Military Pilots
Military
House, Senate Pass Bills to Study the Number of Cancers Striking Military Pilots

WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense would be required to identify how many of its current or former aviators have been diagnosed with cancer in bills passed by the House and Senate this week, a study long sought by military... Read More

Justice Ginsburg Says Cancer Has Returned, But She Won’t Retire
Supreme Court
Justice Ginsburg Says Cancer Has Returned, But She Won't Retire
2020-07-17 17:24:57
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is receiving chemotherapy for a recurrence of cancer, but has no plans to retire from the Supreme Court. The 87-year-old Ginsburg, who spent time in the hospital this week for a... Read More

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She’s Cancer Free
Supreme Court
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says She’s Cancer Free

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has some supreme news: she’s cancer free. The long-serving liberal lion of the Supreme Court — whose health travails keep plenty of progressives up at night — told CNN in an interview published Wednesday that she’s... Read More

Veteran Democrat John Lewis Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer
Congress
Veteran Democrat John Lewis Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer

Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights icon and most senior black lawmaker in Congress, said he’s been diagnosed with Stage IV pancreatic cancer. “I have been in some kind of fight — for freedom, equality, basic human rights — for... Read More

Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Undergoes More Cancer Treatment
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Undergoes More Cancer Treatment
2019-08-23 19:18:05
by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has completed three weeks of radiation treatment for a cancerous tumor discovered on her pancreas in July, the Supreme Court announced Friday. According to the statement, the tumor was discovered after a... Read More

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