A study suggests that you should disregard the "pack-years" when determining your eligibility for lung cancer screening.

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Nature Retracts Cancer Study Suggesting Treatment Is Better Earlier in the Day

Editors "no longer have confidence in the integrity of the results"

Long-Term CAR-T Results in Lymphoma Confirm Early Promise

Lymphoma-free survival exceeding 5 years in early recipients of the cellular therapy

I Watched My Friend Choose Death. Physician-Assisted Suicide Needs More Guardrails.

And the fundamental question remains of whether doctors should be involved at all

Scream, It's Good for You; Release the Cancer Pigeons; Talk of Chemo Rationing

News, features, and commentary about cancer-related issues

A Cancer Patient's Cats Inspired a Push for Pets in Hospice Wards

The presence of a beloved pet can ease the pain of terminally ill patients, says one doctor

Patellar Resurfacing in Total Knee Replacement; Patient Messaging Trends

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Study Homes In on Simpler Lung Cancer Screening Criteria

Researchers find benefits, trade-offs using various levels of smoking duration alone

Orca-T Approved to Prevent GVHD After Stem Cell Transplant for Blood Cancers

Regulatory T cell-based immunotherapy approved for use in matched-donor HSCTs

Why Are These Bones and Teeth Where They Shouldn't Be?

Discovery in 31-year-old woman made after she came to the ER with mild abdominal pain

Where Did This Very Painful Gluteal Mass Come From?

High clinical suspicion, low threshold for biopsy key to diagnosis

Smoker's Painless Skin Nodules Flag a Fatal Diagnosis

Skin metastasis was the first sign for the otherwise asymptomatic patient

ASCO Expert Roundtable: Breast Cancer: Expert Roundtable from the American Society of Clinical Oncology

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ASCO Future Focus: Metastatic Breast Cancer: Future Focus from the American Society of Clinical Oncology

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