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With a Little Help from My Friends

Portland rockers rally around musician’s fight with leukemia. Boxes. Every room was filled with cardboard boxes – a rectangular riot of books, records, photos, tools, kitchen stuff and music...

Cancer Survivors Who Inspire Us

June 4 is National Cancer Survivors Day. To honor this occasion, we’re sharing the stories of six survivors who inspire us. Some are public figures who are famous the world over. Others are people...

The cancer kept coming back

His life was blasted apart by a rare but vicious type of cancer. Could an experimental treatment help? When Derek Fadness woke up, the room was dark and his face was swaddled in bandages. He could...

A better roadmap for beating a deadly leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, is the most common acute blood cancer in adults — and one of the most difficult to treat. Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University have discovered a...

Detecting tumor responses before they become deadly

Targeted cancer therapies can be stunningly effective at blocking specific, cancer-driving signals. But all too often, tumors develop resistance by switching to alternative signaling pathways to...

Jamming fat metabolism stops blood cancer cells

Targeted cancer therapies work by blocking specific, cancer-driving mutations. But in a new laboratory study, researchers show that cancers driven by several different mutations can all be stopped by...

Clinical trial elevates new target for fighting cancers

Researchers have verified a much-needed new target for treating cancers that often become resistant to existing therapies and become deadly. In an early-phase clinical trial, the researchers tested...

Overcoming drug resistance to stop a deadly blood cancer

Cancer researchers have discovered a potential way to make targeted therapy drugs more effective and longer lasting for people with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML. The scientists showed how it is...