Patients should consider creating personal overviews to help care teams see them as individuals, explained Michelle Kirschner.

Patients, Survivors, and Care Providers Meet with Lawmakers on Issues .....

Working to lower prescription drug prices and limit predatory practices costing consumers, Chairperson of the Health Care Availability & Accessibility Committee, state Rep. Natalie Manley, D-Joliet, led a measure pushing new regulations for pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to reign in skyrocketing prescription drug costs and uplift local pharmacies.

It is crucial to understand the characteristics of the disease following a diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer, especially the cancers subtypes and associated biomarkers, as these directly impact the direction of treatment decisions.

Daily adjuvant aspirin did not reduce disease recurrence for patients with colorectal cancer liver metastases and may increase risk for death, according to findings presented at ASCO Annual Meeting.

For younger women with cancer, or survivors of cancer at a young age, supportive care remains an essential component of their care, as it helps these individuals address both emotional and physical needs before, during and after treatment, according to Natalie Schnaitmann.

Cancer stories, as we’ve long told them, tend to follow one of two arcs: diagnosis, then a brave fight against the disease resulting either in survival or death.

Martha first realised that something was wrong when her cough changed and the mucus in her airways became increasingly viscous. Her doctors put it down to a rare disorder she had that caused her lungs to become chronically inflamed. "No worry, it must be that," she was told.

The US state of Montana has become the first in the country to let patients try experimental drugs – even if they are not terminally ill.

On November 4, 2003, a doctor gave Jon Gluck some of the worst news imaginable: He had cancer — one that later tests would reveal as multiple myeloma, a severe blood and bone marrow cancer.