Angus Chen covers all issues broadly related to cancer including drugs, policy, science, and equity. He joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at NPR and NPR affiliate stations. His ...

A long-standing practice through which people hospitalized for blood cancer treatment are restricted to eating cooked foods ...

A dietary change may make the fatal brain cancer glioblastoma more vulnerable to cancer therapies, a new study suggests. The researchers behind the work think this dietary change exploits a key ...

For decades, patients undergoing blood cancer treatment have been told to avoid certain foods to reduce infection risk, guidance that some physicians hoped could safely be relaxed. Now, a University ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." NEARLY 2,500 YEARS ago, Hippocrates proclaimed that “food is medicine.” Or something like that. Not only ...

Though chemo and hormone therapy can make it difficult to want to cook or eat, maintaining nutrition is important. Here are ...

A new machine-learning-based approach to mapping real-time tumor metabolism in brain cancer patients, developed at the ...