Diagnosis and Treatment

What You Need to Know About Lung Cancer

Lung cancer is responsible for more cancer deaths than any other cancer in men and women.share on twitter In fact, it claims more than 150,000 American lives every year. Despite these astonishing numbers, many people know very little about this disease. This is what everyone should know about lung cancer.

New Discovery Could Lead to Improved Cancer Treatment

The finding could improve cancer immunotherapy, a promising therapy that targets cancer cells using the body’s own immune system rather than radiation.

Previously regarded merely as an immune system helper, a kind of white blood cell now seems to be the initiator of the body’s defenses against cancerous tumors. The finding could improve cancer immunotherapy, a promising treatment that targets cancer cells using the body’s own immune system rather than radiation.

Protein produced by soft-tissue sarcomas makes immune cells ‘go bad’

Investigators from Cedars-Sinai Cancer have discovered that cancerous tumors called soft-tissue sarcomas produce a protein that switches immune cells from tumor-attacking to tumor-promoting. The study, published today in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Reports, could lead to improved treatments for soft-tissue sarcomas.

The researchers focused on the tumor microenvironment-;an ecosystem of blood vessels and other cells recruited by tumors to supply them with nutrients and help them survive.

After Treatment Comes a New Battle, and Cancer Patients Aren’t Prepared

This essay, by Emerson Riter, age 15, from The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s Ninth Annual Student Editorial Contest, for which we received 16,664 entries.

Whenever I go swimming, somebody asks about the scar on my chest.

"Trojan Horse" Nanoparticles Kill Cancer Cells Without Drugs

Scientists have created a “Trojan horse” that sneaks anticancer nanoparticles into cancer cells and causes them to self-destruct without any drugs. The research is still in its early days, but the new method has already proved to be remarkably effective at killing cancer cells in a petri dish and reducing tumor growth in mice. 

VIDEO: Cannabis: The Exit Drug

Cancer Schmancer Medical Advisor Dr. Uma V.A. Dhanabalan, MPH, FAAFP, knocks down the bias against the use of medical cannabis and explains its many uses in her own practice. Watch below.

Magic Mushroom's Active Compound Could Relieve Depression For Up To One Year, New Study Finds

A new review study by Johns Hopkins University researchers is shedding light on the long-term effects of psilocybin in the treatment of major depression.

In a new study, 58% of participants with major depressive disorder were in remission after one year of doing two sessions with psilocybin.

A Brief History of Psychedelic Research With Albert Garcia-Romeu

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For decades, the word psychedelic was most acutely tied to images of the “swinging” ‘60s, peace signs, and flower power. But perceptions are changing.

Half a century on from the counterculture movement, psychedelics are now firmly rooted in clinical research, as an exciting new avenue for drug-assisted psychotherapy.

MDMA Reopens Child-like “Critical Periods” in the Brains of Mice to Promote Mental Healing

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Chemo Creates Leaky Blood Vessels Helping Cancer Cells To Spread

A new study adds to the evidence that chemotherapy enhances cancer’s spread beyond the primary tumor, showing how one chemo drug allows breast cancer cells to squeeze through and attach to blood vessel linings in the lungs.

The research in mice leaves no doubt that the chemo drug caused changes to non-cancer cells that enable this process. Scientists pre-treated healthy mice with the chemotherapy agent and gave them intravenous injections of breast cancer cells four days later.

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