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Interrupting prolonged sitting with light daily activity can reduce a person's risk of cancer. Image credit Backcare and Acupuncture Clinics, UK CANCER DIGEST – Sept. 20, 2026 – Uninterrupted sitting for prolonged periods of time can boost the risk of dying of cancer by 9 percent according to a new study published in the journal PLOS, the peer reviewed journal of the Public Library of Science. The July 1, 2026 study was led by Frederick Ho of the University of Glasgow, UK, an

The complex interactions of hormone receptors often can result in treatment resistance for patients with HR+ and HER2+ advanced breast cancer. – Image credit Penn Medicine. CANCER DIGEST – June 27, 2026 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the targeted drug palbociclib in combination with standard therapies for adult patients with hormone receptor-positive (HR+) and HER2-positive (HER2+) often called triple positive locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer

Women who used GLP-1 medications were about 30 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than similar women who did not use the drugs, according to a new retrospective study led by researchers at University of Pennsylvania

Low doses of vitamin D can enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy given to women being treated for breast cancer.

Patients with a variety of solid tumors saw cancerous tumors that a had spread to other parts of their bodies shrink when the primary tumor was injected with a re-engineered antibody immunotherapy.

Individually-tailored risk-based screening may be a more efficient way to screen for breast cancer. Image credit – National Cancer Institute CANCER DIGEST – Jan. 18, 2026 – Tailoring breast cancer screening to individual risk factors as opposed to relying on age guidelines may be a better way to reduce the chance of advanced cancer at diagnosis, a major screening study shows. The WISDOM study enrolled 46,000 women from all 50 states between 2016 and 2023. The aim was to compa

Women under 50 are being diagnosed with cancer more often than screening guidelines predict, with a large percentage of these cancers being invasive and harder to treat.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer have a higher risk of aggressive and hard to treat cancers if they live near an EPA designated Superfund site.

Using repurposed FDA-approved drugs, researchers were able to eliminate residual cancer in breast cancer survivors.

A new study suggests that a single workout session can produce a powerful anti-cancer effect in breast cancer survivors by triggering the release of specific proteins produced by muscle cells.