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Cancer
The Inherited Lung Cancer Gene That Rode Out of Appalachia on a Wagon Road
Carriers were about 25 times as likely to develop lung cancer as everyone else, more than 60 times if they never smoked. The variant came over with British and Irish settlers, concentrated in Southern Appalachia after a founder event two centuries ago, and surfaced in a consumer spit-kit database, n
CancerMD Anderson Made the Case for Radiation Cleanup After Immunotherapy. Then Its Own Trial Undercut It.
In the oligometastatic subgroup the strategy was built for, small and underpowered, the patients who added radiation trended the wrong way: median survival of 42 months against 75.8 for the drugs alone.
CancerSummit's $500 Million Lung Drug Split the Curve Patients Can't Feel
Ivonescimab delayed tumor progression by 2.4 months in EGFR-mutated lung cancer, but its overall-survival curve never cleared statistical significance and serious treatment-related adverse events nearly doubled.