Twenty-eight years ago, that's how the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research started. Now their seed grants are bearing fruit for many local researchers and patients. UCLA scientist Evan Abt is trying to unlock the way pancreatic cancer cells trick the body's immune system into not seeing them.

University of Florida researchers found that advanced lung and skin cancer patients lived “significantly longer” after receiving the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine. This finding, in conjunction with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center,

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Following a Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson podcast, Florida wants to study whether ivermectin could work against cancer. There is not yet evidence it would.

Thursday’s night Light the Night event in Cincinnati worked to make a difference for families impacted by blood cancer.

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, observed annually in October.In 1985, American Cancer Society co-led an effort to launch a weeklong campaign to educate women about the importance of early screening and routine mammograms for breast cancer detection and treatment.

The business is giving back to the community this October by hosting a 5K for breast cancer research. All proceeds will benefit Van Andel Institute and their biomedical research.

The Mattie Family, of Bellefonte, are back again with another spooky and wacky display in their front yard as it holds its 4th annual fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Big LeBoneski — an annual fundraising campaign put on by the family each October — is looking to raise money to

Hope illuminated the night sky at Siena College during the Lymphoma and Leukemia Society's annual Light the Night event.Hundreds of lanterns were released in h

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The University of Louisville and UofL Health recently received $11.5 million in federal funding to develop new immunotherapies for cancer patients.