Cancer

Triple negative breast cancer is aggressive and hard to treat. It also disproportionately affects Black women. A University of Kansas medical researcher is working to find out why and expand treatment options.

Kansas health care providers are scrambling to respond to a global shortage of chemotherapy drugs.

An early detection program provides breast and cervical cancer screening and treatment to uninsured people. Yet potentially hundreds of other Kansans diagnosed with other types of cancer remain without coverage.

Biomarker testing is a tool that doctors use to get a clearer picture of a medical problem — often cancer.

Oil and natural gas operations may be linked to childhood cancer, according to a new study by the University of Colorado.As The Denver Post reports,…

After dueling reviews of research studies, scientific panels from the U.S. government and the World Health Organization are having a hard time agreeing…

From the Kansas Health Institute:More than one-quarter of adult Kansans say they don’t have any of five major behavioral risk factors for chronic disease,…

From the Kansas Health Institute:Carl Adams has an aggressive form of blood cancer that has resisted multiple attempts to treat it through chemotherapy.…

From Kansas Public Radio, Bryan Thompson reports. A cancer diagnosis is often the beginning of a life-or-death struggle. Patients want to go into that…