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People who ate their evening meal before 9 p.m. or waited at least two hours after supper before going to sleep had a 20 percent lower cancer risk than those who ate supper after 10 p.m. or those who ate and went to bed soon after, according to a new study.

A team of scientists say they've developed a new, faster method to reprogram T cells, which normally target bacterial or fungal infections, into cancer fighters.

The report on the local CSX rail yard, a heavily contaminated site just outside downtown Waycross, which was years overdue, offered no new information to grieving parents.

Flight Attendants Show Higher Cancer Risks By Amy NortonHealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 26, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Flight attendants may face higher-than-average risks of breast and skin cancers, a new study finds -- though the reasons why aren't yet clear.Harvard researchers found that compared with women in the general U.S. population, female flight attendants had a 51 percent higher rate of breast cancer. Meanwhile, their rates of melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers were about two to four times higher, respectively.The study, which included over 5,300 U.S. flight attendants, is not the first to find heightened cancer risks

Liver cancer incidence is highest in the United Kingdom (9.6 per 100,000 people), followed by 9.2 in the United States, 7.4 in Australia and 6.0 in Canada. The rankings are the same for liver cancer deaths.

For about two decades, kidney removal followed by drug therapy has been the standard of care for people with advanced kidney cancer, said Dr. Bruce Johnson, chief clinical research officer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston.

Read the latest on cancer research from ASCO, including cancer treatments, from the annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

What's more, the extra money Americans paid didn't buy them any more time on Earth. Average survival was roughly similar on either side of the border.

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland at the front of the neck. It produces hormones that control the rate of many functions in the body, including how fast you burn calories or how fast your heart beats.

Grilling meats at a high temperature can produce cancer-causing compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

New research reports on three cases of a potentially vision-threatening eye condition called uveal effusion that patients developed after taking cancer immunotherapy.

Researchers found that all the patients fared better on immunotherapy treatment than they would have on another treatment (or no treatment at all). But following treatment, male cancer patients saw their survival extended by twice as much as female patients.

Seven out of 10 oncologists surveyed in the United States said they aren't informed enough about the risks and benefits of medical marijuana to recommend its use to patients, according to findings published May 10 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Ocular melanoma typically occurs in just six of every one million people, but has been diagnosed in a group of 18 patients in North Carolina and Alabama.

In this new field, doctors use your genetic information to shape your medical treatment.

In this new field, doctors use your genetic information to shape your medical treatment.

Researchers collect red blood cells from patients, modify them so anti-cancer or other medicines can be enclosed, then inject them back into patients. The goal is improve the medicines' effectiveness while reducing harmful side effects.

The Codman pump is implanted in the abdomen and sends high doses of chemotherapy directly into the liver for cancer that has spread there, typically from colorectal tumors, The New York Times reported.

You’ve heard of dogs sniffing out hidden drugs, explosives, or missing people. Can some of our four-legged friends spot cancer by its scent, too?

One day not too long from now, doctors will treat your ailment with medicines and therapies designed just for you. What does the future hold for this type of precision or personalized medicine?

These scares are common. They affect about half of women who get annual mammograms; almost one-quarter of those who get regular stool tests for colon cancer; and 10 to 12 percent of men who have regular prostate cancer tests, the researchers said.

The researchers used the images to assess how precisely the radiation was delivered, and to determine if it shifted closer or farther away from the heart.

The biomedical tattoo is made up of cells embedded with sensors that measure levels of blood calcium.

In lab tests, these drugs also stopped growth of the two cancers that afflict Tasmanian devils.

The findings suggest kidney cancer develops and progresses differently in men and women, the study authors said.