Cancer Frontiers
Treatments by mechanism, early detection, precision oncology, immunotherapy and prevention research. Cancer is many diseases — we report it that way.
Is There a Cure for Cancer? The Better Question Is: Which Cancer, at What Stage, and With Which Treatment?
There is no single cure for cancer, yet many cancers are cured every day. Type, stage and treatment explain the difference.
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Cancer FrontiersThe New Cancer Toolkit: Immunotherapy, Targeted Drugs, Cell Therapy, and Precision Oncology
Targeted drugs, checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T cells and biomarker testing have joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Each works differently, helps some patients dramatically and others not at all.
AI + MedicineCan AI Spot Cancer Earlier? Where Imaging Helps and Where False Alarms Matter
In breast screening, AI support has been tested in a randomized trial of more than 100,000 women and a real-world study of 460,000. The results are promising, but false alarms, overdiagnosis and deskilling still matter.
Is there a cure for cancer?
Cancer is not one disease. Some cancers are often cured today; others remain hard to control. The better question has three parts.
From The Lab
What if we could detect a cancer before symptoms appeared?
Finding cancer earlier sounds like pure good news. The details are more interesting.
What if a therapy were designed around one person’s tumor?
Every tumour carries its own mutations. Could a treatment be built to match them?
What if your genome could help select a treatment?
Sometimes it already does. The trick is knowing when a genetic result is truly useful.
Watch and learn
How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? – George Zaidan
An animated primer on what separates a cancer cell from a normal one, from uncontrolled division to evading the body's usual checks. Viewers also…
NCI Minute: CAR T-Cell Immunotherapy for Cancer Treatment
A short National Cancer Institute explainer on CAR T-cell therapy, in which a patient's own T cells are engineered to recognize and attack cancer.…
Checkpoint Inhibitors: Taking the Brakes Off the Immune System
Explains how tumors exploit immune 'checkpoints' to switch off T cells and how checkpoint-blocking drugs release those brakes. A useful foundation for understanding much…
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