Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metformin is listed as one of the World Health Organization's "essential" medicines. The cheap, generic drug is seen as a global ...

A Pfizer drug recently awarded accelerated FDA approval in colorectal cancer now has additional data showing it met key goals in its pivotal study, results that could support an application seeking ...

Immunotherapy uses the power of your immune system to fight your cancer. One type of immunotherapy is called an immune checkpoint inhibitor. Your immune system has built-in checkpoints that help it ...

Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer deaths in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. This year, the organization estimates that more than 150,000 ...

Oxaliplatin, a drug to fight colorectal cancer, appears to cause nerve damage that may be permanent and worsens even months after treatment ends, according to a Johns Hopkins news release. Johns ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

Colorectal cancer, also known as colon cancer, is one of the most common types of cancer in both men and women around the world. Once thought to be mainly a disease of older adults, it is now ...

LOS ANGELES — A novel combination therapy offers better outcomes for patients with KRAS G12C metastatic colorectal cancer that have stopped responding to chemotherapy, according to a Phase 3 clinical ...

A leading oncologist proposes classifying metastatic cancer by molecular alterations rather than organ origin, arguing that the shift could accelerate drug access.

After getting engaged, the only words journalist Mrinali Dhembla expected to hear were “I do.” Instead, she was told, “You have cancer.” “When I first heard the words, ‘You have cancer,’ I was ...

Metformin is the most widely prescribed diabetes drug in the world. Scientists believe the drug has some colon-cancer prevention benefits. New research provides hints about its use as a supplemental ...