Roughly 20 percent of women with breast cancer who should be receiving radiation therapy as a follow-up to surgery aren't getting it. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center who conducted a study that uncovered this potentially deadly situation say the most common reason women cited for not considering radiation therapy was that their doctors did not recommend it. ...more

February 11, 2009

Tampa Bay area men with a certain prostate condition are being recruited for a National Cancer Institute study. ...more

December 20, 2008

In a small-scale study on which researchers plan to expand, a component of the human immune system was turned into what initially appears to be a potent weapon against a deadly form of skin cancer. ...more

June 25, 2008