Medical oncologist Dr. Mark H. O’Hara explains how research on innovative immunotherapy therapies at Penn may offer hope to current and future pancreatic cancer patients.
When Denise found herself diagnosed with cancer for a second time in her young life, she found comfort in the many cancer treatment and fertility preservation options available to her at Penn Medicine. Read about her journey and the research studies th...
The search for effective combination therapies for cancer has focused heavily on synergistic combinations because they exhibit enhanced therapeutic efficacy at lower doses. Although synergism is intuitively attractive, therapeutic success often depends...
Epidemiological studies have shown that caffeinated drinks may help prevent skin cancer by inhibiting a DNA repair pathway, thus killing potentially precancerous cells. In English, it means that drinking drinks containing caffeine will reduce one’s chances of developing some types of cancer, includingread more
A recent study stated that drinking three sugar sweetened drinks a week would increase the risk of having breast cancer. The study had 776 pre-menopausal women and 779 post-menopausal women. Each women’s breast density was assessed by examining their mammograms. The women were told to make aread more