Patients taking novel treatments for CLL, and their caregivers, should know which side effects to expect — and recognize when they become emergencies.
Before I was diagnosed, I had my share of illnesses, but none that slowed me down like cancer could.
When caring for someone who has undergone brain surgery, practice patience and ask for support.
Will the word "cure" be used for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)?
Folate receptor alpha was a promising biomarker when it came to treatment with mirvetuximab soravtansine.
While there are a few common and well-known checkpoints for bladder cancer, there are also many more than PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4.
First-line treatment with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in combination with chemotherapy improves progression-free survival in patients with locally recurrent, inoperable or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer (mTNBC), according to data presented at the 2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program.
What if there were some way to identify gene mutations causing the cell to behave as a cancer and then, with a medication, undo the effects of the errant gene? This is the basis of personalized medicine.
After losing the sister she raised to an aggressive type of liver cancer, one woman has devoted herself to stamping out the disease.
This essay nominating oncology certified registered nurse, Abbi Bruce, for the 2019 CURE® Extraordinary Healer® Award, was written by her colleague, Holly DeFeo, a board certified registered nurse at Hartford HealthCare Cancer Institute.
Now that things are slowly getting back to normal as more people become vaccinated, we welcome back the idea with open arms of in-person connections. But there’s still one population that needs more human connection: those with a rare cancer.
Mary Bohn, RN, OCN, a nurse at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, discusses the landscape and side effects of treatment for patients with multiple myeloma.
"We can actually improve quality of life," Sharon L. Bober says. "Why wouldn't we want to do that for everyone?"
This is my survivor story and how my dragon boat involvement continues to help me get through my breast cancer journey.
There are many instances I could tell you about when and how God carried us through my son’s battle with testicular cancer. The right things happened at the most opportune times.
Jeannie Woith, BSN, RN, LMT, The James Cancer Hospital, The Ohio State University, discusses the treatment of oral mucositis in patients with head and neck cancer.
A family collaborated on this essay to nominate registered oncology nurse Susan DeVictor for CURE®’s 2019 Extraordinary Healer® Award.
I had been diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer just three months after my mother passed away from the same disease.
Jason Katz, who accepted the 2016 Multiple Myeloma Hero award for his late father, Mike Katz, discusses how his father became inspired and motivated to help others with multiple myeloma. Mike Katz, who was a board member of the International Myeloma Foundation, passed away last year after battling the disease for more than two decades.
IT IS WITH ENTHUSIASM that I nominate Yesenia Nunez, RN, for CURE's 2014 Extraordinary Healer Award for Oncology Nursing.
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation is offering exciting new trials for patients with multiple myeloma – including the COMPASS and My Drug trials.
The treatment landscape of ovarian cancer continues to change with the recent approvals of new agents.
According to findings presented at ASCO 2017, patients with low-risk advanced colon cancer would benefit from reducing the length of chemotherapy after surgery.
Even amid stay at home orders to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, listen to your body and speak to your healthcare professionals when you are worried about a potential for cancer.
WHEN JANET SCHADEE, M.S.N., looks back at her varied nursing career, she says she always cared and advocated for cancer patients with all kinds of needs.
One organization facilitates research on sick canines to help generate treatments for children and animals.