Better treatment and diagnoses have helped more people survive, but economic disparities in outcomes for some preventable cancers have gotten worse.

A small, in vitro study concludes that e-cigarette vapor harms macrophages taken from human lung tissue.

Merck’s Keytruda extended the lives of lung cancer patients by several months and appeared to stop the progression of advanced melanoma.  

The test can pick up several types of cancer, including pancreatic and ovarian, years before symptoms appear.

Pembrolizumab combined with chemotherapy nearly doubles survival rates and shrinks tumors in some individuals.

By removing a single gene, researchers change the developmental fate of tumor cells in mice.  

The new diagnostic works by identifying cancer-associated proteins and DNA in patient blood.

Scientists in China aim to treat 10 people with lung cancer with CRISPR-edited cells.

Scientists produce a detailed genomic map of mutations and epigenetic changes associated with smoking tobacco across 17 tumor types.