A Texas-based biotech becomes the first company to seek FDA approval for a gene-based cancer drug. This one is designed to treat recurrent head and neck cancer.

A talented 34-year-old chef is named the top chef in the country less than a year after Stage IV tongue cancer threatened to end his life and his career.

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) are using precision lasers to effectively treat early vocal cord cancers without reducing the patient’s voice quality. The pulsed Potassium-Titanyl-Phosphate laser being used at MGH is an angiolytic laser that uses wavelengths of laser light to specifically target diseased cells without damaging healthy vocal cord tissue. A team led [...]

At 33, Lori Hamilton is on the race circuit helping manage a NASCAR team and raising awareness about head and neck cancer, the disease that killed her husband.

A study led by the Harvard School of Medicine provides evidence that targeted chemotherapies commonly used to treat glioblastoma may do more harm than good for some patients. Glioblastoma is a rare form of brain cancer with a poor survival rate. STAT3 inhibitors are one of the few therapies available to treat the disease, but [...]

Researchers at Loyola University Medical Center have completed the only study of its kind comparing the effectiveness of radiation versus surgery in treating patients with early larynx cancer. Loyola’s investigation, which included over 3800 patients, concluded that long term cure rates were equivalent using both therapies but, radiation treatment significantly reduced the risk of developing [...]

The US Food and Drug Administration has issued new warnings on several drugs commonly prescribed for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy treatments. The drugs, known as Erythropoiesis Stimulating Agents or ESAs, contain genetically engineered proteins used to increase red blood cell counts in many patients with cancer or chronic kidney failure. The new warnings caution that [...]

New studies published in the October 25, 2007, edition of the New England Journal of Medicine report significantly higher survival rates for head and neck cancer patients who received a three-drug chemotherapy regimen prior to radiation treatments rather than the standard two-drug therapy. The addition of docetaxel to the cisplatin and fluorouracil combination typically administered [...]

Experts are concerned Australia’s Tasmanian Devil could soon be extinct due to a contagious form of facial cancer that is wiping out entire populations of the marsupial. Because Devil groups lack genetic diversity, their bodies don’t launch an immune response to combat tumors. The disease progresses rapidly, resulting in disfiguring growths on the animal’s face [...]

A routine visit to your local dentist may soon include a quick test for oral cancer. University of Texas researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive test which dentists can use to detect cancerous cells in the mouth in as little as 10 minutes. A small acrylic testing device strains cells taken from the patient’s [...]