A specialty beer – brewed in memory of a special young woman – has raised more than $31,000 for ovarian cancer research at Magee-Womens Research… Read more
Category: cancer
New Technology Significantly Improves Lung Cancer Surgery
Researchers at UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are using groundbreaking tumor-highlighting technology to better visualize lung cancer tissue—giving surgeons a significantly… Read more
Scheduling COVID-19 Vaccines and Screening Mammography
About 10% of participants in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s COVID-19 vaccine approval trials reported swelling in the lymph nodes under their arm after… Read more
Should Cancer Patients Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?
COVID-19 vaccines are currently in short supply, but UPMC cancer experts say it is critical for cancer patients to get immunized when doses become available.… Read more
U.S. Cancer Mortality Rate Records Largest Single Decline
The number of people dying from lung cancer and melanoma has dropped by more than 50% over the past five years, according to the latest… Read more