British Journal of Cancer

Oncology & Cancer

Cytokine levels could predict immunotherapy problems

The development of immunotherapy, which mobilizes the body's own immune system to destroy cancer cells, is one of the greatest advances in cancer treatment, but immunotherapy can cause harm to healthy tissue in some patients. ...

Oncology & Cancer

Prediagnosis psychiatric care linked to worse cancer mortality

(HealthDay)—Precancer psychiatric utilization (PU) is associated with worse cancer-specific mortality (CSM) and all-cause mortality (ACM) among adults with solid organ malignancies, according to a study recently published ...

Oncology & Cancer

Patients need more guidance on chemo web information

(Medical Xpress) -- Doctors and nurses may be underestimating the value placed on internet chemotherapy information by cancer patients and missing out on opportunities to discuss this information with them, new research finds ...

Oncology & Cancer

Lifetime weight gain linked to esophageal and stomach cancers

People who are overweight in their twenties and become obese later in life may be three times more likely to develop cancer of either the oesophagus (food pipe) or upper stomach, according to a study published in the British ...

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