A new experimental drug could be an effective treatment for some people with low-grade glioma.

Learn about a clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering that gives people with rectal cancer a new option to be treated without radiation. The research shows that a well-known chemotherapy regimen used alone can be just as effective as chemotherapy given with radiation before surgery. The new method may reduce side effects associated with radiation such as loss of fertility and impaired bladder and sexual function.

New research finds an antibody treatment helped shrink tumors in some patients with bile duct cancers — specifically a subset of people whose tumors make a high amount of the HER2 protein, which can cause cells to multiply too quickly.