- The report by the American Cancer Society suggests the need for stronger tobacco control programs to help save more lives
- American Cancer Society experts stress the need for individual state policies banning or restricting STLD plans to save lives
- The report highlights the need for developing evidence-based strategies for protecting patients during extreme weather events
- A new form of personalized cancer immunotherapy, known as tumor infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) therapy, dramatically improved the treatment’s effectiveness in patients with metastatic gastrointestinal cancers.
- A study of 85,000 older adults in the U.K. suggests that light- and moderate-to-vigorous-intensity daily physical activity can reduce cancer risk. The number of steps taken daily may be more important for cancer risk than the intensity of activity, the study shows.
- An NCI clinical trial showed that an experimental gene therapy called PRGN-2012 may be an effective treatment for recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, which is caused by HPV 6 and HPV 11.