For anyone facing cancer themselves or the diagnosis of someone close to them, finding a community to lean on can be life changing. Friends, family and support groups can all help fill this need, but ...
"As someone on the front lines, who sees this every day, I've seen lung cancer caused by marijuana that is incredibly aggressive," says Dr. Raja Flores, Chairman of the Department of Thoracic Surgery ...
A drug called osimertinib (brand name: Tagrisso) has shown real promise in treating EGFR-mutated stage 3 lung cancer, according to research presented at this year’s American Society of Clinical ...
“Did you smoke?” is a common, and not always easy question, which people are asked when they get lung cancer. It may not be a nice question, but it is increasingly important for deciding your ...
Immunotherapy, a relatively new type of cancer treatment, harnesses the power of the immune system to recognize and kill cancer cells. In some patients, the results can be life-changing. Unfortunately ...
Endometrial cancer staging is a way to describe the extent of cancer in the body, if or where it has spread, and whether it is affecting other parts of the body. Endometrial cancer is assigned a stage ...
Jerry Cowhig, a British dad of two, was diagnosed with a rare type of blood cancer called multiple myeloma after experiencing chest and abdominal pain for a year. Now he’s urging others not to ignore ...
For metastatic or stage 4 lung cancer, ask about the genetic mutation results and also the PD-L1 testing. The tumor may be biopsied. Patients with a protein called PD-L1 may be better candidates for ...
Positive results from a clinical trial called EMBER-3 trial indicate the promise of using a drug called imlunestrant to treat women with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+), human epidermal growth factor ...
Connie Campbell was 11 years old when she discovered she had a type of brain tumor called medulloblastoma [a rare primary central nervous system tumor] just days after going on rollercoaster prompted ...
Australian mom of two, 41-year-old Em Davies was diagnosed with early-stage invasive HER2+ breast cancer after being diagnosed with Paget disease of the breast, rare type of cancer that involves the ...
“Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum Camille Grammer, 56, is looking incredible and feeling “much better” after her recent breast implant removal surgery, a procedure she decided to do because she ...