Sarah Diepstraten, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) and Terry Boyle, University of South Australia
That depends on a number of factors, including the cancer you had initially, as well as your genes, environment and lifestyle.
Identifying the most effective cancer treatment for a given patient from the get-go can help improve outcomes.
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Functional precision medicine works to take the guesswork out of deciding which drug to try next for patients with cancers that don’t respond to standard treatments.
Cancer in children is often more invasive and aggressive than that of adults.
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Children typically haven’t accumulated enough cellular damage to develop cancer. Because their bodies are still developing, pediatric cancers differ from adult cancers in key ways.
Around 20% of women with lung cancer have never smoked.
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While lung cancer rates have decreased by 43% in men, they have risen by 79% in women. New screening guidelines and recognizing early symptoms can help address the changing face of lung cancer.
A landmark analysis of the genetic sequences of hundreds of different cancers offers crucial insights into the origins and growth of the disease’s myriad forms.