Lynparza (olaparib) was granted approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of patients with BRCA-positive, HER2-negative metastatic breast cancer who have previously received chemotherapy. Also, patients who have HR-positive disease should have prior endocrine therapy or they would not be considered appropriate for such treatment.
"Garden variety" breast cancer is no longer the norm thanks to the discovery of more genetic mutations.
"Breathe in God, breathe out cancer," I prayed with as much conviction as I could muster.
Those of us who had chemotherapy and/or radiation as part of our treatment have now been hit with another lovely late effect, if the results of a new study are accurate. We have the potential to age prematurely.
With wit and wisdom, Carolyn Choate recounts the resilience of cancer survivors everywhere to outwit the enemy within.
Parts of the Northeast had a foot or more of snow last week. What should patients do when their scheduled cancer treatment falls in the middle of a snow storm?
In the movie, Charlie Brown was asked what his New Year’s resolution was. With typical candor, he answered that instead of dreading the whole year he was dreading only one day at a time.
Racial and socioeconomic status disparities can affect all types of lung cancer treatment – including surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. However, researchers may not be aware of this, since many of these groups are underrepresented in lung cancer clinical trials.
Who knew surviving cancer would be a beauty secret?
Oral mucositis causes pain, the inability to eat which can also lead to nutritional problems, and an increased risk for infection as a result of open sores. In turn, these symptoms can lead to reduced quality of life, chemotherapy or radiation dose-limiting, and increased treatment costs from antibiotics or narcotics or additional or longer hospital stays.
You wouldn't keep an annoying friend around. Think of fear the same way.
To date, trials testing the use of immunotherapy in the treatment of ovarian cancer yielded disappointing results. However, researchers are not giving up. Instead, they’re investigating to see if immunotherapy drugs – such as PD1 and PDL-1 inhibitors – can be combined with other agents to benefit patients.
Lymphedema requires diligence all seasons. Do not let icy cold weather catch you or your lymphedema, unaware. Take precautions to protect yourself.
Any thought about the future was initially difficult to manage, but I soon realized I was not going to waste any time I had left in my life and made it a mission to enjoy life with greater depth.
The researchers noted that physical activity plays an important role in lymphoma survivorship, and the data may provide rationale for a clinical trial to evaluate exercise intervention in this patient population.
The after effects of breast cancer can leave survivors wondering how much more medical trauma they can take. The daily struggle presents challenges for many survivors. This is one survivor's story.
A new combination – Keytruda (pembrolizumab) plus Lenvima (lenvatinib) – was granted a breakthrough therapy designation to treat patients with advanced and/or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
Looking back in 2018, I am so glad that we sought out the other opinions. Nerve wracking as it was, the process opened up other options we would not have known about.
Breast cancer survivor shares her dance on the risk continuum of the chemicals in our lives.
Radiation therapy alone reduced the number of cancer cells by 20 percent and the blueberry extract alone by 25 percent. But when combined, the blueberry extract and radiation therapy led to a 70 percent reduction in the number of human cervical cancer cells.
