Cancer Survivors Who Inspire Us
June 4 is National Cancer Survivors Day. To honor this occasion, we’re sharing the stories of six survivors who inspire us. Some are public figures who are famous the world over. Others are people...
Tag: ASCO
Treatment advance for an incurable blood cancer
Researchers are reporting an impressive advance in the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that is considered incurable. Patients who took the drug ibrutinib in addition to a...
Progress in preventing kidney cancer recurrence
Cancer “adjuvant” therapies are treatments designed to reduce the chances of tumors coming back after surgery. But for decades, attempts to find adjuvant treatments for kidney cancer failed to...
Digging in to questions that matter for men with prostate cancer
Cancer researchers presented more than 5,200 study findings at the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in June. Amid the hubbub, Knight Cancer Institute Deputy Director Tom Beer, M.D.,...
Long after chemotherapy, nerve damage may increase a woman’s risk of falling
Years after completing treatment, nearly half of women cancer survivors continued to experience chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy in a new study that tracked more than 500...