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While clinical trials are paving the way for new treatments to treat hematologic malignancies, but many patients are apprehensive to participate in them after considering the costs.

How weightlifting helped me through cancer.

Be careful about believing that new drugs could be the "silver bullet" to cure cancer.

We roll the dice every day. When are the odds in our favor?

Just when there's so much to say, you can find yourself walking a verbal tightrope. Let love lead the way.

We need to pace ourselves at the onset for what may be a much longer race than we anticipated.

When I think of living in cancer's shadow, my mind immediately jumps to the dark body that is my constant companion and seems to, paradoxically, grow stronger the brighter the light.

Matthew Yurgelun, M.D., answers questions such as: Which patients with colorectal cancer should recieve molecular testing, and at what point?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing the nation’s second cooling cap — Paxman Scalp Cooling System — to reduce hair loss in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

In an interview with CURE, Katz, professor of Medicine and Health Management and policy at the University of Michigan, discussed his study of patient reaction to surgeon recommendations about CPM.

Offering comfort and compassion to newly diagnosed women can be a blessing.

What we are called is important to those who give a name power. But the reality is that we are survivors.

Having faith and being patient in a field that is on the cusp of many wonderous things

Glioblastomas are difficult to treat, but researchers are hopeful that clinical trials will lead to new developments.

Amanda Bontempo, MS, RD, CSO, CDN, gives some tips for healthy eating. Join us on 4/18 at 1 PM for our tweetchat, with Bontempo as moderator, to discuss more nutrition.

6 things to help cancer survivors through loss of income.

Cancer survivor is happy to not be the center of so much attention and to move her own attention elsewhere after cancer.

When it rains it pours. These five words can be filled with so much meaning. These five words can be used to describe a lot of happenings in anyone’s life. Trying to avoid the cancer heartache works for a while but when you lift back the current, the fears and anxiety flood in like a heavy rain.

The FDA has granted an accelerated approval to Tecentriq as a frontline treatment for patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma who are not eligible for cisplatin chemotherapy.

ECAN’s mission is to save lives by making Americans aware that reflux disease can cause cancer, promoting early detection, supporting medical innovation to prevent, detect, treat and cure esophageal cancer and linking patients and families to compassionate support.

What do we do when we get a bad report from the oncologist? How do we cope? Here is one suggestion.

Breast cancer is challenging and confusing. It causes people to stop and think, to reevaluate life. In that reevaluation time, many questions arise too.

As survivors, sometimes we step outside our comfort zones to help groups that raise awareness about cancer along with funds for research. Representing survivorship at a Relay for Life event can be as important as donating funds or decorating luminaries.

Do I have cancer? Did I have cancer? I may have an answer.

Malignant tumors of the brain or spinal cord represent about 1 percent of all cancers. Michael Feuerstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., is among that small percentage.

Many survivors of Ewing sarcoma have few complications and long-term side effects later on, according to a recent study.

According to lead investigator Lillian L. Siu, M.D., the IDO1 inhibitor BMS-986205 had “best-in-class” activity for patients with advanced tumors in a phase 1/2a study.

Despite the incidence of breast cancer either holding steady or decreasing in other U.S. racial/ethnic groups, it has been increasing in Asian-American women for the past 25 years.

Finding normalcy after cancer.