Six years after being diagnosed with B-cell ALL at 21, William Yank opens up about the physical changes of treatment, the emotional weight of constant care and the role hope plays in his survivorship.
Replacing two cycles of intensive chemotherapy with Blincyto raised four-year event-free survival to 83% from 70.3% in children with high-risk B-cell ALL, with far fewer infections.
In a trial of 2,175 people with early HER2-positive breast cancer, 43.8% had no invasive cancer left after 12 weeks of a lighter regimen, and certain tumor features predicted who was most likely to respond.
Median progression-free survival reached 24.9 months with Tukysa plus Herceptin and Perjeta versus 16.3 months with placebo plus Herceptin and Perjeta.
A Phase 3 trial of firmonertinib did not meet its main goal in a hard-to-treat lung cancer subtype, though the drug caused fewer serious side effects than chemotherapy.
In a study of more than 250,000 older adults presented at ASTRO 2026, people with depression who started talk therapy within a week of their cancer diagnosis had a 27% lower risk of dying from their cancer. But most people with depression received no mental health treatment at all.