How can you support someone who’s facing cancer?
Supporting a friend, colleague or loved one who has cancer is a delicate balancing act.
Supporting a friend, colleague or loved one who has cancer is a delicate balancing act.
Real-world studies represent an important step in the medical research process, Dr. Alexander Spira explained in an interview with CURE.
As novel treatments such as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy, bispecific antibodies, and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing reshape cancer care, ensuring access for rural and under-resourced communities remains a major concern.
Cancer during pregnancy is rare but increasingly recognized as maternal age rises and non-invasive prenatal testing becomes more common, according to research published in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
The Government Accountability Office’s (GAO’s) new report, Health Care Consolidation: Published Estimates of the Extent and Effects of Physician Consolidation, reinforces what the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) has been saying for years: as physicians are bought out or forced to close their practices by hospital systems or insurers, patients suffer from higher costs, reduced care access, and often lower quality of care.
Lalan Wilfong, MD, a medical oncologist/hematologist with Texas Oncology and physician liaison for value-based care for McKesson Specialty Health, discussed how artificial intelligence (AI) prediction models could improve end-of-life care for patients with cancer, per his presentation at the Inaugural MiBA Community Summit.
If more and more young people are dying of colorectal cancer, why aren't we talking about it? Is it because we're too ashamed of our bodies?
In the U.S., only 16% of people eligible for lung cancer screening are getting the lifesaving scan, and 23% of lung cancer patients receive chemotherapy and/or radiation before undergoing full biomarker testing, potentially resulting in less successful treatment.
A new study led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows that the overall five-year cancer survival rates for each stage of cancer (localized, regional, distant) were lower in non-metropolitan areas for Black and White individuals in the United States.
Heather Ann Yonker, outpatient stem cell transplant dietitian at John Theurer Cancer Center, in Hackensack, New Jersey, gave CURE a detailed overview of food safety practices, emphasizing their importance for patients with cancer, particularly those undergoing treatments that may weaken the immune system.