Genitourinary Cancer News

A select group of people who spend their day jobs fighting cancer — as surgical oncologists, radiation epidemiologists, or working in radiobiology and bionanotechnology — had a unique opportunity to lend their expertise to NASA.

City of Hope announced Wednesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Cancer Treatment Centers of America.

Substantial reductions in procedures used to diagnose cancer and in new cancer diagnoses occurred across the U.S. because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a review of a large database of U.S. veterans published in Cancer.

Racial and ethnic minority populations remain underrepresented in many precision oncology trials relative to their cancer incidence in the U.S., according to study results published in JAMA Network Open.

Yoga therapy improved quality of life, immune responses and expression of inflammatory cytokines in men with newly diagnosed prostate cancer, according to results of a pilot randomized controlled trial.

Belzutifan demonstrated clinical efficacy among patients with von Hippel-Lindau disease-associated renal cell carcinoma, according to results of a phase 2 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

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Sepsis is a leading cause of preventable death across the globe, and patients with cancer have a 10 times higher likelihood of developing this life-threatening condition than those without cancer.

Although cancer clinical trial participation has increased among Black and Hispanic individuals, these populations — along with women and older adults — remained underrepresented, according to a study published in Cancer.

More than 80% of therapies tested in phase 3 oncology trials did not demonstrate clinically meaningful benefit in extending survival, according to results of a study published in JNCCN — Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.