Leading Cancer Experts Help Patients Decide Best Treatment Options
There are few words uttered by a doctor that have more of an emotional impact than “You have cancer.” At that point, the most precious commodity that one has to hold on to is time. It can be time-consuming and difficult to know whom to consult, or how to move forward, let alone which treatment […]
Cancer Clinical Trials See Shortage of Participants
Despite widespread public awareness campaigns on behalf of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), it seems the majority of patients don’t know about the cancer clinical trials available to them. Clinical trials are still the only means to test new cancer treatment and medication, but the AACR says fewer than five percent of cancer patients volunteer. […]
Investigational Therapy May Change How Urinary Tract Cancer is Treated
The cancer is called upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). It affects the lining of the kidney and the ureter, the tube that connects the kidney to the bladder. UTUC can be classified as high-grade or low-grade. People diagnosed with the high-grade disease usually must have their kidney, or both their kidney and ureter, removed. Those […]
Cancer treatment and research 2021
Cancer treatment and research 2021 In the summer of 2018, cancer treatments were approximately 36,000 new cases filed in the United States. This is equal to 11% of the total number of diagnosed cases in 2017 and 14% of all tumors that will be seen on a mass screening laboratory test. There are also 100 […]
Protect Your Health During Cancer Treatment
Cancer can be a difficult and overwhelming diagnosis, and if you have cancer or are undergoing cancer treatment, your top priority is to get healthy. After your cancer diagnosis, there are many new things you might need to learn and manage. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Blood Clot Alliance want […]
The National Children’s Cancer Society Observes 25 Years
The battle against childhood cancer is ongoing. Over the past 20 years, incidence of children diagnosed with cancer has risen from 11.5 cases per 100,000 children in 1975 to 14.8 per 100,000 children in 2004 — during this same time, however, death rates declined dramatically, according to the National Cancer Institute. Many experts agree that […]
Understanding Cancer Research Studies and Evaluating Outcomes
Depending on the questions healthcare experts wish to answer, these studies can be designed in various ways. Any research design study isn’t perfect. All the designs have their own strengths and drawbacks. Thus, it is vital to know a design study. After doing it, you can also know the outcomes to know whether these are […]
Using Subtypes to Guide Treatment of Advanced Breast Cancer
For patients with breast cancer, knowing whether the diagnosis is early stage or advanced is needed to help treat the disease. Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer for Georgia Cancer Specialists, Cheryl Jones, MD, has experience in treating patients with advanced breast cancer, an incurable but treatable disease, which comprises metastatic (stage IV) and locally advanced (stage […]