A new study reinforces the expectation that cancer patients who postpone radiation therapy treatments will have poorer outcomes than those who fully comply with the program as scheduled. No surprise there, but the researchers also found that the differences are sharp, consistent across disease sites and observable despite eventual program completion by the stragglers.

Men tend to think they’re at slim-to-zero risk of getting breast cancer. So when a man gets it—and the man is a cancer biologist, and he has a mastectomy, and he blogs about it to undeniably illuminating effect—that man is worth hearing from.

German researchers have developed a way to combine MRI with ultramicroscopy to study the growth of blood vessels in glioma mouse models, and in exacting detail. Their new “toolkit” may aid future efforts to target particular vessels in brain tumors for glioblastoma therapies.

Aa growing number of patients are developing colon cancer earlier in life, according to a video posted online by CBS News.

Hot on the heels of final-draft guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) on screening mammography comes blistering commentary from two Georgetown University professors—one a physician and the other an attorney—taking Congress to task for the way it has acted to implement the recommendations.

Nothing kills more AANHPIs—that’s the population subset comprising Asian-Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders—than cancer. Yet AANHPIs have whopping 30 percent to 40 percent lower incidence and mortality rates than non-Hispanic whites for all cancers combined. 

Radiologists have a key role to play in cancer staging, but many seem to need a nudge to get on with it. 

The American Cancer Society is out with its annual rundown of cancer statistics, and overall the news is encouraging.