Cancer Stocks List

Related ETFs - A few ETFs which own one or more of the above listed Cancer stocks.

Cancer Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Mar 28 AEZS Ceapro Receives Final Court Approval for Merger with Aeterna Zentaris
Mar 28 ACHV Earnings Scheduled For March 28, 2024
Mar 27 ABT Abbott Hosts Conference Call for First-Quarter Earnings
Mar 27 AFL Here's Why Prudent Investors are Holding Aflac (AFL) Shares Now
Mar 27 ABT Abbott's (ABT) Assert-IQ Cardiac Monitor Receives CE Mark
Mar 27 AEZS Aeterna Zentaris (AEZS) Reports Q4 Loss, Tops Revenue Estimates
Mar 27 AFL Aflac's Virgil Miller: Five Life and Leadership Lessons I Learned in the Military
Mar 27 AEZS AEterna Zentaris: Q4 Earnings Insights
Mar 27 AEZS Aeterna Zentaris reports Q4 results
Mar 27 AEZS Aeterna Zentaris Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Financial Results and Announces Completion of Enrollment in Ongoing Pivotal DETECT-Trial for the Diagnosis of Childhood-Onset Growth Hormone Deficiency
Mar 26 ABT Abbott (ABT) Increases Despite Market Slip: Here's What You Need to Know
Mar 26 AFL How a park bench meeting led to Aflac’s $200 million mascot idea
Mar 26 ABVC Why ABVC BioPharma Stock Is Up Today
Mar 26 AIM AIM ImmunoTech to Discuss Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2023 Financial Results on April 2, 2024, and Host Conference Call and Webcast
Mar 26 ABVC ABVC BioPharma Entered into a Global Licensing Deal of Vitargus with Licensing Income of $33.5M and Royalties up to $60M
Mar 26 ABT 25 Countries with the Highest Death Rate From Malnutrition
Mar 26 ABT 25 Countries with Lowest Rates of Infant Mortality
Mar 26 AFL Aflac’s CEO gave us that obnoxious, genius duck and changed the insurance industry. Now, he’s facing his aging customers’ mortality—and eventually his own
Mar 25 ABT 30 Countries with Highest Proportion of Older Adults
Mar 25 AFL Aflac Voices - Virgil Miller: Together Is How We Care
Cancer

Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread to other parts of the body. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bleeding, prolonged cough, unexplained weight loss and a change in bowel movements. While these symptoms may indicate cancer, they may have other causes. Over 100 types of cancers affect humans.Tobacco use is the cause of about 22% of cancer deaths. Another 10% are due to obesity, poor diet, lack of physical activity or excessive drinking of alcohol. Other factors include certain infections, exposure to ionizing radiation and environmental pollutants. In the developing world, 15% of cancers are due to infections such as Helicobacter pylori, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, human papillomavirus infection, Epstein–Barr virus and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These factors act, at least partly, by changing the genes of a cell. Typically, many genetic changes are required before cancer develops. Approximately 5–10% of cancers are due to inherited genetic defects from a person's parents. Cancer can be detected by certain signs and symptoms or screening tests. It is then typically further investigated by medical imaging and confirmed by biopsy.Many cancers can be prevented by not smoking, maintaining a healthy weight, not drinking too much alcohol, eating plenty of vegetables, fruits and whole grains, vaccination against certain infectious diseases, not eating too much processed and red meat and avoiding too much sunlight exposure. Early detection through screening is useful for cervical and colorectal cancer. The benefits of screening in breast cancer are controversial. Cancer is often treated with some combination of radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy and targeted therapy. Pain and symptom management are an important part of care. Palliative care is particularly important in people with advanced disease. The chance of survival depends on the type of cancer and extent of disease at the start of treatment. In children under 15 at diagnosis, the five-year survival rate in the developed world is on average 80%. For cancer in the United States, the average five-year survival rate is 66%.In 2015, about 90.5 million people had cancer. About 14.1 million new cases occur a year (not including skin cancer other than melanoma). It caused about 8.8 million deaths (15.7% of deaths). The most common types of cancer in males are lung cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer and stomach cancer. In females, the most common types are breast cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer and cervical cancer. If skin cancer other than melanoma were included in total new cancer cases each year, it would account for around 40% of cases. In children, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and brain tumors are most common, except in Africa where non-Hodgkin lymphoma occurs more often. In 2012, about 165,000 children under 15 years of age were diagnosed with cancer. The risk of cancer increases significantly with age, and many cancers occur more commonly in developed countries. Rates are increasing as more people live to an old age and as lifestyle changes occur in the developing world. The financial costs of cancer were estimated at $1.16 trillion USD per year as of 2010.

Browse All Tags