Oncology News

Mount Sinai's Dr. Jeffrey Glassberg says, "More and more adults with sickle cell are able to have children, work, and live fulfilling lives."

Former mayor Thomas M. Menino has been diagnosed months after leaving office with an advanced form of cancer that has spread to his liver and lymph nodes, a jolting discovery that he described as the most profound challenge of his life.

Health providers may experience information and financial loss during the mandated conversion from the current International Classification of Diseases to its new and improved version, according to researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago .

Americans' excessive alcohol use contributes to thousands of deaths each year, and the majority who die are working-age adults, according to a new government report.

On February 25, 2014, DARA BioScience, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted Orphan Drug Designation to KRN5500 for the parenteral treatment of painful, chronic, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy that is refractory to conventional analgesics.

The Cancer Care Center of Davis Medical Center is joining a statewide cancer clinical trials network in order to keep cancer patients closer to home when receiving treatment.

The second time, Bash wanted to explore all her options, including an experimental treatment that manipulates a patient's tumor cells to trigger an immune response.

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There is an association between pancreatic cancer and diabetes, new research indicates.

Alix Hayden has brain cancer, but instead of undergoing surgery and grueling chemotherapy, she's fighting it with the low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet and has been doing great so far.

Sibley Memorial Hospital is making another bid to offer proton radiation therapy to pediatric cancer patients - this time with Children's National Memorial Center as a partner.

Marline Van Duyne almost underwent chemotherapy without knowing whether she was among the 80 percent of people with her type of breast cancer who don't need it.

Completing that final round of chemotherapy and being declared cancer-free is an unquestionable personal health milestone.

Correspondence: Professor Dr J Decker, Clinic III—Hematology and Oncology, Medical School of Johannes Gutenberg University, Building 911 for Research and Development, Obere Zahlbacher Street 63, Mainz D 55131, Germany.

Polish biotechnology company Selvita announced it will present new data at poster sessions at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2014, which will be held next month at San Diego, California.

"With the cost-containment measures implemented in the second half of 2013, AVEO ended the year in a strong financial position," said Tuan Ha-Ngoc, president and chief executive officer of AVEO.

DARA BioSciences, Inc. , an oncology supportive care pharmaceutical company dedicated to providing health care professionals a synergistic portfolio of medicines to help cancer patients adhere to their therapy and manage side effects arising from their cancer treatment announced today that the Company is presenting data from its abstract titled ... (more)

AnaptysBio, Inc., a leader in the discovery and development of therapeutic antibodies, today announced a strategic immuno-oncology collaboration with TESARO, Inc. , an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company.

Dr. Antonio Caydedo performs surgery in the operating room at Health Sciences North.

A woman may have to go through unnecessary chemotherapy to treat her breast cancer after her breast tissue sample was lost in the mail.