cancer

On this episode, we examine the common types of brain cancer, then we review the challenges veterans experience after a traumatic brain injury.

The city hasn’t given all those benefits to Joey Davis, president of the Tallahassee firefighter’s union and a cancer survivor. Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill earlier this month.

The FDA told Amgen to test whether a quarter-dose of sotorasib worked as well as the amount on the label. It did, but the biotech is sticking to the higher dose, which earns it an extra $180,000 a year per patient.

A rise in breast cancer among younger women prompted the U.S. Preventive Task Force to issue new screening guidelines. They recommend mammograms every other year, starting at age 40.

An approach called functional precision medicine, based on testing a patient’s cancer genomic profile and drug response, promises better outcomes for children with cancer.

Scientific advances in immunotherapy and new targeted therapies have increased survival rates. But screening among former and current smokers still needs to improve to save more lives.

The study found that between 2013 and 2017, there were 46 cancer drugs granted accelerated approval. Of those, only 43% improved or extended lives in confirmatory trials.

Lawmakers unanimously passed the skin-cancer screening bill after limiting it to state employees. The governor also signed a bill that designates April as “Hot Car Death Prevention Month.”

On this episode, leading experts and survivors discuss the third most common cancer diagnosed worldwide.

The Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool is a questionnaire on the National Cancer Institute website. The actor says her score prompted further tests and the discovery of an aggressive form of the disease.