cancer

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He made the revelation in a book in which he chronicled his battle with cancer, saying that he received immunotherapy treatment throughout his record Vendee Globe victory.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

Tests revealed the cancer had grown back "aggressively", leaving Ethan struggling to breath due to fluid build-up on his lungs.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

When cancer cells were exposed to UNI418, levels of critical DNA repair proteins, including RAD51 and CHK1, dropped significantly.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

The acquisition is set to give GSK ownership of three drug candidates for lung cancer, two of which are under FDA review for approval this year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

One woman with the BRCA1 mutation might develop an aggressive, metastatic variant of breast cancer at age thirty.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee