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External beam radiation therapy is used to treat many types of cancer. it is a local treatment, where a machine aims radiation at your cancer. Learn more about different types of external beam radiation therapy, and what to expect if you're receiving treatment.

An experimental drug has been tested in the lab and with animals and approved for testing in people by the FDA, but can’t yet be advertised, sold, or prescribed. Experimental drugs may be available through clinical trials or expanded access programs - learn more about these programs and how to talk to your doctor.

Resumen de información revisada por expertos acerca del deterioro cognitivo en pacientes de cáncer en relación con el funcionamiento cognitivo normal y las intervenciones para tratar los cambios cognitivos.

Learn how these investigators' projects aim to break new ground in biomedical, behavioral, and clinical cancer research.

Cancer cells can develop resistance to drugs that were previously effective. This Cancer Moonshot initiative aims to increase understanding of how this resistance develops, and to use biomarkers to predict who will develop it, and ways to counteract it to improve patient care and survival.

This Cancer Moonshot initiative will engage patients to contribute their tumor profile data to expand knowledge about what therapies work, in whom, and in which types of cancer. A patient’s genomic data may guide treatment decisions.

This initiative aims to develop, test, and adopt proven cancer prevention and early detection approaches to reduce cancer risk and cancer health disparities in all populations.

While standard biological methods such as two-dimensional, in vitro cell culture and in vivo animal models are useful to examine certain biological questions, the complexity of cancer requires a continuum of model systems. This collaborative study will create a foundation for tumor tissue engineering by employing multiple innovative methodologies to first characterize and then build biomimetic models of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in the tumor microenvironment. The ECM is a key element in biomimicry, and particularly important to consider in the context of cancer, where the composition and architecture of the ECM change drastically with disease progression.

Learn about the different types of costs related to taking part in a clinical trial, who is expected to pay for which costs, and tips for working with insurance companies.

Most health insurance plans are required to cover routine patient care costs in clinical trials under certain conditions. Learn about the conditions that insurance plans take into account and how to work with your insurance company.