Fewer people under age 50 are dying from cancer in the U.S., but colorectal cancer mortality rates continue to surge

Colorectal cancer has since jumped up from being the fifth-leading cancer death in the early 1990s.

Death rates from colorectal cancer, however, have continued to rise in younger adults, becoming the leading cause of cancer death among people under 50 in 2023. The disease was the fifth-leading cause of death from cancer in the early 1990s.

Researchers found an antibody that seems to play a role in people with better lung cancer prognoses, but turning it into a treatment could be difficult.

Jan 22 (Reuters) - Corcept Therapeutics said on Thursday a late-stage trial showed its experimental drug in combination with chemotherapy helped reduce the risk of death in patients with a type of ovarian cancer.

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck the small Ukrainian-Belarusian border town of Chernobyl, (then part of the Soviet Union) when a series of steam explosions led to a nuclear meltdown. The apocalyptic event impacted hundreds of thousands of people and greatly impacted the surrounding environment.

Thousands of men with incurable prostate cancer will be offered a lifeline after an about-turn on NHS treatment.

By Diana Novak Jones Jan 20 (Reuters) - In a victory for thousands of women suing Johnson & Johnson over claims that the company's baby powder and other talc products caused their ovarian cancer, a court-appointed special master recommended on Tuesday that they be allowed to present testimony at trial from experts who support that link.

Universal gene‑edited CAR‑T therapies turn donor T cells into off‑the‑shelf cancer treatments, cutting delays and costs while delivering rapid remissions for hard‑to‑treat patients.