The university hosted one of 270 events around the country Wednesday rallying support for Vice President Joe Biden's cancer task force.

A new report led by IU researchers is the largest of it's kind to study cisplatin-chemotherapy and hearing loss in cancer survivors.

The Indianapolis hospital will begin treating melanoma patients with a new drug that uses a modified virus to infiltrate and destroy deadly skin cancer tumors.

Dr. Murray Korc and Dr. Rajesh Sardar spent most every Saturday in the lab over the last year and a half working on the biosensor that zeroes in on the deadly cancer's micro-RNA. They hope the innovation can lead to the development of similar tests for other cancers -- and to the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

The World Health Organization says meat processed through salting, curing, smoking and other methods can cause cancer.