Summer 2007

Data collection doesn’t end when a clinical trial ends, as rare or long-term side effects of a new drug or treatment may take years to emerge.

Questions to ask yourself before enrolling in a clinical trial.

Tumors of people who never smoked are more likely to respond to certain types of drugs.

Early lung cancer screening for high-risk people, including smokers, is an emotional and debatable topic.

Therapies that preferentially target lung cancers harboring certain EGFR mutations can be effective in some lung cancers in never-smokers.

The ethics of animal testing are fiercely debated.

Although non-small cell lung cancer is the most common type of lung cancer, a handful of other primary cancers affect the delicate organ.

The ethics of cancer research and how it affects you.

The FDA approves third kidney cancer drug and blood-clotting therapy while delaying review on a prostate cancer vaccine, and one drug edges another in a colorectal cancer clinical trial.

Updates from the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology includes news on liver, kidney, lung, colon, pancreatic and breast cancers.

Genetic nondiscrimination bill on its way to becoming law.

The Anderson Network's Living Fully with and Beyond Cancer conference in Houston.

Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow.

A second HPV vaccine proves effective in preventing cervical cancer.

Are the drugs to treat anemia safe?

Gamers take virtual shot at cancer.

14-year-old brain tumor survivor Jimmy Fowkes turns shaved heads and a bike into cash for cancer.

Survivor chronicles her life with metastatic breast cancer in Slapped Awake.

Protecting bone health in childhood cancer survivors.

Sunstone Cancer Support Centers offer desert oasis.

Things to remember before beginning tai chi.