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National Institutes of Health researchers found an increased chance of breast cancer among women who regularly used permanent hair dye, particularly African Americans.

Hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk, especially for black women: Study

December 6, 2019 at 10:26 a.m.

A large study led by government scientists is renewing concern about whether chemicals used to dye and straighten hair raise the risk of cancer. National Institutes of Health researchers found...

Philanthropist Dana Dornsife sits with Londyn Wylaie, 4, during the free monthly community dinner at the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, part of Drexel's School of Public Health, on Oct. 1, 2019. Dana and her husband, David, gave $10 million to create the center.

Cancer patients often need this one basic thing to participate in clinical trials

October 11, 2019 at 1:19 p.m.

When Paul Bagga was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer that soon spread to his brain, the nonsmoker was devastated and terrified. More than five years later, the Flourtown retiree, 67,...

Dr. Christian Hinrichs (R), an investigator at the National Cancer Institute in immunotherapy for HPV+ cancers, shows patient Fred Janick, a survivor of metastatic cancer, the difference between his CT scan showing cancerous tumors (R) and a clean scan after treatment (L), after a day of medical exams showing no recurrence of cancer, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, February 8, 2018.
Experimental trials are ongoing at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, a US government-funded research hospital where doctors are trying to partially replace patients' immune systems with T-cells that would specifically attack cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), a common sexually transmitted infection. A person's T-cells will naturally try to kill off any invader, including cancer, but usually fall short because tumors can mutate, hide, or simply overpower the immune system.
Immunotherapies that have seen widespread success, such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cell therapies, mainly target blood cancers like lymphoma, myeloma and leukemia, which have a tumor antigen -- like a flag or a signal -- on the surface of the cells so it is easy for immune cells to find and target the harmful cells. But many common cancers lack this clear, surface signal. Hinrichs' approach focuses on HPV tumors because they contain viral antigens that the immune system can easily recognize.

Americans continue to be ignorant or indifferent about the cancer-preventing HPV

September 20, 2019 at 2:06 p.m.

Thirteen years after the HPV vaccine was hailed as a revolution in cancer prevention, most Americans still don't know the virus causes oral and genital cancers, and most doctors still...

Rates of obesity-related cancers are rising among people aged 50 to 64, and declining among senior citizens, according to a recent study.

Obesity-related cancer rates are rising in middle-aged Americans but falling in seniors. What’s going on?

August 19, 2019 at 9:17 a.m.

The risk of developing cancer increases with age. But a new analysis of federal cancer data suggests that the obesity epidemic is making the demographic picture more complicated. Researchers at...

Anal cancer is on the rise, especially in women. Should they be screened?

June 16, 2019 at 4:52 p.m.

Now that actress Marcia Cross has been in remission from anal cancer for about a year, she has a mission. "I want to help put a dent in the stigma...

A box for Xofluza, a pill for shortening the duration and easing symptoms of the flu. U.S. health regulators have approved the first new flu drug in two decades.

What you should know about the new flu drug, Xofluza

April 29, 2020 at 9:17 p.m.

The first new influenza drug in 20 years was approved in October, and maker Genentech says Xofluza began reaching pharmacies last week – good timing for flu season. With a...

Lung-transplant recipient Sarah Murnaghan with her mother Janet on a recent visit to Newtown Square.

A historic adult-to-child lung transplant saved their daughter, who’s now a thriving teen

August 19, 2019 at 3:58 a.m.

It has been a little more than five years since Sarah Murnaghan left Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with a new set of lungs, harvested from an adult donor and trimmed...

Howard University, May 12.
"I don't know what your future is. But if you are willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes — the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory — then you will not regret it. Now, this is your time. The light of new realization shines on you today. Howard's legacy is not wrapped up in the money that you will make but the challenges that you choose to confront. As you commence to your paths, press on with pride, and press on with purpose."

Updated osteoporosis screening guidelines cover only women. That could hurt men

December 13, 2018 at 7:11 a.m.

Over the last 20 years, bone fracture rates in women have declined thanks to osteoporosis screening and treatment. But increasingly, experts say, the emphasis on women and osteoporosis has fostered...

Actor Michael Douglas has said that his oral cancer was linked to HPV. Compared with women, men are more likely to get infected with HPV — including "high-risk" cancer-causing strains.

HPV is causing an oral cancer epidemic in men by outwitting natural defenses

December 14, 2018 at 3:32 p.m.

Five years ago, when actor Michael Douglas candidly revealed that his throat cancer was linked to having oral sex, two things happened. He made headlines that mortified his family. And...

Laura Tuzio Ross who is a breast canceer survivor, in her studio where she creates life-like dolls in vinyl and silicon. Laura Tuzio Ross calls herself a "uniboob" - she has one small breast, and a mastectomy scar where her other breast was removed.

In a breast-obsessed world, more women ‘go flat’ after mastectomy

June 1, 2018 at 10:05 p.m.

When Laura Tuzio Ross told her plastic surgeon that she preferred not to reconstruct her breast after cancer surgery, he warned her she would regret it. "He said, 'You're only...

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