Rural Americans Have Difficulty Accessing Promising Cancer Treatment
CAR T-cell therapy is available at only about 150 transplant centers, creating an accessibility issue for roughly half of Americans.
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Free Healthy Oregon Project Offers Early Cancer Detection To All
The Healthy Oregon Project is looking for more people to participate in the free screening, particularly communities of color.
In America, Cancer Patients Endure Debt On Top Of Disease
The high costs of modern-day care have left millions with a devastating financial burden, but few suffer more than those with cancer.
Oregon’s Wildfire Smoke Comes With Cancer-Causing Chemicals
Monitoring by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality showed elevated levels of chemicals harmful to human health during the wildfires of 2020.
Cancer Cases In Kids Are Rising. Some Experts Blame Toxic Chemicals.
While death rates for childhood cancer victims are going down, incidence rates are going up. Are environmental exposures at fault?
Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays And Uncertainty As Coronavirus Cripples Hospitals
The federal government has encouraged health centers to delay nonessential surgeries while weighing the severity of patients’ conditions and the availability of personal protective
Some Cancers Can Live For A Decade Before Threatening Life, OHSU Research Shows
Efforts to detect early cancers are proving successful at the Oregon Health & Science University's Knight Cancer Institute.
New research suggests they may sit in the body for as long as a decade before becoming life-threatening.
Press Release: Liver, Colon Cancer Cells Thwarted By Compounds Derived From Hops
The plant that adds flavor, color and bitterness to beer also produces a primary compound that thwarts cancer cells, and two important derivatives of the compound do as well, new research at Oregon State University shows.
Pricey Precision Medicine Often Financially Toxic For Cancer Patients
The high cost of cutting-edge tests and treatments is threatening to keep precision medicine — one of the most celebrated areas in cancer research — out of reach for many patients.
When Kristen Kilmer was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer at age 38, her first thought was of her 8-year-old daughter. Kilmer had lost her own mother as a teenager and was determined to get more time with her only child.
Fish Oil, Vitamin D Don't Prevent Cancer, Serious Heart Troubles
A clinical trial involving nearly 26,000 people showed these widely taken supplements don't affect rates of cancer diagnosis or serious heart issues but do appear to stem heart attacks and cancer deaths.
A widely anticipated study has concluded that neither vitamin D nor fish oil supplements prevent cancer or serious heart-related problems in healthy older people, according to research presented Saturday at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions.
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