Research Updates

New studies find that electronic cigarettes trail other methods in helping people quit smoking, but they are growing in popularity among teens.

by Teresa Bergen

Forward Look

Nanoscopic biological computer kills cancer cells, spares healthy ones.

by Natalie Slivinksi

Forward Look

Researchers find that when treating metastatic melanoma, timing is everything.

by Kendall K. Morgan

Patients with cancer often have at least one other chronic disease. Researchers hope to shine a light on how conditions and treatments interact in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and other cancer types.

by Eric Fitzsimmons

From the Editor-in-Chief

New therapies are being developed to attack a previously untreatable cancer mutation.

by William G. Nelson, MD, PhD

Many women are being diagnosed with cervical cancer, despite the availability of tools to prevent and diagnose the disease. Black and Hispanic women and low-income and rural populations are especially vulnerable.

by Natalie Slivinski

A new AACR report tracks progress in addressing cancer health disparities and identifies work that still needs to be done.

by Eric Fitzsimmons

From the Editor-in-Chief

Is it the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning?

by William G. Nelson, MD, PhD

As outcomes improved for cancer patients in states that expanded Medicaid, disparities in survival disappeared.

by Jon Kelvey

Researchers are investigating how to match specific dietary changes with therapy to impede cancer progression.

by Thomas Celona