Stomach Cancer Awareness

From a Pro Football Hall of Famer announcing his diagnosis to an R&B star’s latest update, here’s what’s happening in the cancer space this week.

One cancer vaccine may still be years away from being available, a breast cancer test may be misguiding treatments for Black women and the review of two oncology regimens are being expedited by the FDA.

The agency has approved Ziihera for adults with previously treated, unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive biliary tract cancer.

Here are some of the top stories from the recent Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium as well as the Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.

For unresectable or metastatic liver cancer, the TPST-1120-301 trial of amezalpat combination therapy has received a “Study May Proceed” letter from the FDA.

I initially put off a colonoscopy due to gastroesophageal reflux disease, but after a positive home screening test, I underwent the procedure and was diagnosed with stage 3 rectal cancer.