Moon Shot deploys policy help, education and clinical trial innovation against tobacco use
November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and the third Thursday of each November is designated by the American Cancer Society as the Great American Smokeout – a day focused on encouraging Americans to quit smoking.
Tobacco cessation and prevention have long been an area of focus and expertise for MD Anderson, and has been a critical component of the Lung Cancer Moon Shot® since its inception. The effort is part of MD Anderson’s...
Moon Shot promotes efforts to prevent, quickly detect pancreatic cancer
Each year in the U.S., more than 50,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which ranks around the 10th most common cancer type...
Mutations in tumor-adjacent tissues could reveal earliest events leading to malignancy
MD Anderson researchers have identified early genomic events that may lead to malignant transformation. They’ve found that tissue adjacent...
Immunotherapy combination is greater than the sum of its parts
Combining two types of immune checkpoint inhibitor fires up responses in T cells that are separate from those initiated by the two drugs individually, a research team led by Nobel Laureate Jim Allison, Ph.D., reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Administering two immunotherapy antibodies that unleash an immune attack on cancer by separately blocking the CTLA-4 and PD-1 checkpoints on T cells doesn’t have...
E-cigarettes: Unstandardized, under-regulated, under-studied – safety unknown
The recent outbreak of lung injury and death associated with e-cigarettes and vaping has led to a renewed scrutiny of electronic nicotine...