As I prepare for the inevitable — though not death — I find myself on the brink of beginning treatment for my chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

We are taking some time off to cherish our family, .....

Cancer is a complex disease with many causes – and sometimes none. For some patients, getting cancer is down to plain bad luck.

Following lung cancer resection, patients had more improved exercise outcomes and health-related quality of life with a home-based exercise and self-management program vs. usual care, according to results published in JAMA Network Open.

The Community Oncology Alliance (COA) is pleased to announce that Debra Patt, MD, PhD, MBA, FASCO, has been elected president of COA.

Admitting she might sound like an eternal optimist, Alyssa Schatz, MSW, vice president, Policy and Advocacy, National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), spent the fireside chat on the first day of the annual Patient-Centered Oncology Care (PCOC) meeting highlighting the progress she’s seen around responses to prior authorization (PA) policies and movement on equity.

Early detection is widely seen as key to cancer survival, which is why screenings and prevention are so widely recommended.

Early one morning in June, 2017, Todd Doan woke his husband, Wylliam Soliwoda-Doan, to say that he was going to the hospital. Doan, a music teacher at an elementary school in East Orange, N.J., had spent the previous week in bed with unusual fatigue and a deep, hacking cough.

In 1995, when Matthew Zachary was 21 years old and at college, he went to a campus doctor because he had hand neuropathy, although he didn’t know at the time that was what it was called. He was prescribed Robitussin and went on his way.

Researchers at University of California San Diego and collaborating institutions have shed light on the ways that social risks, such as housing or food insecurity, pose barriers to routine cancer screenings.