Merck melanoma drug shrinks tumors in 38 percent of patients
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Merck & Co drug designed to unmask tumor cells and mobilize the immune system into fighting cancer helped shrink tumors in 38 percent of patients with...
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Vinegar screening helps cut cervical cancer deaths in India: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A simple screening program for cervical cancer using vinegar and visual exams helped reduce deaths caused by the cancer by 31 percent in a group of 150,000...
Vinegar screening helps cut cervical cancer deaths in India: study
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A simple screening program for cervical cancer using vinegar and visual exams helped reduce deaths caused by the cancer by 31 percent in a group of 150,000...
Merck melanoma drug shrinks tumors in 38 percent of patients
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Merck & Co drug designed to unmask tumor cells and mobilize the immune system into fighting cancer helped shrink tumors in 38 percent of patients with...
Drug is a first to help patients with melanoma of the eye
CHICAGO (Reuters) - In his first few weeks as head of the melanoma group at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seven years ago, a young man walked into Dr. Gary Schwartz's...
Drug is a first to help patients with melanoma of the eye
CHICAGO (Reuters) - In his first few weeks as head of the melanoma group at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center seven years ago, a young man walked into Dr. Gary Schwartz's...
Immunotherapy is not just for melanoma anymore
CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer over a year ago, Gabe Tartaglia was loath to undergo the kind of harsh chemotherapy that had devastated his sister before...
Immunotherapy is not just for melanoma anymore
CHICAGO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Diagnosed with advanced lung cancer over a year ago, Gabe Tartaglia was loath to undergo the kind of harsh chemotherapy that had devastated his sister before...
Pfizer takes its shot at a vaccine for evasive superbug
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kathrin Jansen is a microbiologist with at least two breakthrough vaccines to her name: she brought the cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil to market for Merck and helped...
Labs reject dramatic findings on cancer drug in Alzheimer’s mice
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. scientists say a dramatic result last year suggesting that a cancer drug already approved by U.S. regulators could quickly clear out Alzheimer's plaques in mice was...