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Cancer Today’s Winter 2024-25 issue covers the benefits of stereotactic body radiation therapy, geriatric assessment in cancer care, and more.
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At the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers discussed clinical trials for vaccines and other ways to prevent breast cancer.
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Hypnosis is safe and can work as both a stand-alone or a complementary treatment with other therapies.

Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

A narrower, more personalized ‘normal range’ could help doctors better diagnose and treat disease in individual patients.

Cold and flu viruses often circulate more in the fall and winter, but there are some time-tested strategies for avoiding them, such as vaccines, handwashing and staying active.

Insurers in many ways are the face of US health care, which may help explain the public reaction to the murder of an insurance executive.

Black Americans were disproportionately affected by COVID-19 infections, illness and death during the pandemic. But the long-term toll of long COVID among this group is still largely overlooked.

A clinical psychologist offers research-backed ways to work through grief and support grieving friends and family members during the holidays.

The murder of a health care insurance executive has brought scrutiny to the ways that insurance companies can make it difficult for insured patients to get the care they need.