Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

• Developing cancer may be simply due to “bad luck”, according to a recently published article in Science.
• Scientists have started clinical trials to test drugs for a gene mutation linked to multiple cancers. More on these trials can be found in journal Cancer Discovery.
• Lifestyle guidelines may reduce certain cancer risks and overall mortality. For more, please refer to this article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
• Stereotactic body radiation therapy plus chemotherapy improves survival rates of stage 4 lung cancer patients according to study at UT Southwestern Medical Center published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
• Pfizer’s Ibrance, new cancer drug type to treat advanced breast cancer, may get early approval.
• According to the latest annual report from the American Cancer Society, death rates from cancer continue to drop in the US.

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