A comprehensive assessment of the benefits of medical cannabis for cancer-related pain found that for most oncology patients, pain measures improved significantly, other cancer-related symptoms also decreased, the consumption of painkillers was reduced, and the side effects were minimal. Published in Frontiers in Pain Research, these findings suggest that medicinal cannabis can be carefully considered as an alternative to the pain relief medicines that are usually prescribed to cancer patients.

A new way in which cancer cells can repair DNA damage has been discovered by researchers at the University of Birmingham.

From 1999 to 2019, rates of cancer deaths declined steadily among Black people in the United States. Nevertheless, in 2019, Black people still had considerably higher rates of cancer death than people in other racial and ethnic groups, a large epidemiologic study has found. The study was led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, and the findings appeared May 19 in JAMA Oncology.

About The Study: Researchers found in this cross-sectional study that there were substantial decreases in cancer death rates among Black individuals in the United States from 1999 to 2019, however these rates in 2019 were higher than in other racial and ethnic groups included in the analysis.

Osteosarcoma is a rare bone tumor that has a high incidence among children and young adults. Despite recent therapeutic developments, osteosarcoma still presents major hurdles to achieving successful results, mainly due to the presence of multi-drug-resistant cells. This monograph primarily aims to provide information about the basic science behind the treatment of osteosarcoma along with experimental results for a novel formulation that overcomes multidrug resistance, and therefore, may serve as a viable treatment option. The study primarily aimed at answering a fundamental question associated with the therapeutics of Osteosarcoma (OS). The proposed introduction of a novel formulation that overcomes multidrug resistance as a viable treatment option.