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The routine use of MRI during active surveillance for prostate cancer obviates the need for another exam that some patients find uncomfortable, an expert panel agreed.

Variants in two gene pathways appear to be directly linked to sarcoma development. The finding offers hope for earlier cancer detection and treatment, suggest researchers.

A novel cancer prevention clinic in Tel Aviv, Israel, has shown that it detects many common cancers at earlier stages than happens in the general population.

Despite a long-held belief that prostate cancer mortality is worse among Black men, in fact, it is similar or even lower than the rate in White men when social factors are equalized, suggests a new analysis.

The approach takes advantage of castration-resistant prostate cancer cells adaptive reliance on androgen signaling.

A clinical trial from India raises the possibility of huge cost savings by using ultralow immunotherapy doses in the treatment of head and neck cancer.

Nearly a third of men with prostate cancer had a vertebral fracture at the time of ADT initiation, underscoring the need for better baseline risk assessment.

The latest American Cancer Society annual report highlights an increase in late-stage prostate cancer diagnoses, but also a dramatic fall in cervical cancer in young women.

Despite guidelines against screening for prostate cancer in men aged 70 years and older, new findings show that the practice is still prevalent in the primary care setting.

Regular screening is recommended for only four cancers, but even so these tests account for diagnoses of about 14% of all cancers, a new study suggests.