Oncology News

Kelly Vanek, a runner, cyclist and triathlete, was listening to sports talk radio in the car when the conversation shifted to Angelina Jolie .

At 31, Matilda Tristram was looking forward to having her first baby. Then she discovered she had cancer.

Hawthorn Oncology Center has been acquired by Saint Anne's Hospital Regional Cancer Center, the hospital announced Friday, combining more than 100 staff members to service patients in Dartmouth and Fall River.

Seventy two hours after Elissa Bantug's mastectomy, she felt broken. She was only 25 years old, but she had lost both breasts and her strawberry blonde hair to cancer.

New approaches are dramatically changing breast surgeries, whether it's to treat cancer or to prevent it.

Two drugs from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. shrank tumors in as many as half of patients with advanced melanoma, according to early research that may pave the way for cocktails that trigger the immune system to destroy cancer.

To understand just how brave Angelina Jolie is, consider what she did not write in her op-ed in The New York Times: her decision to have a mastectomy and forgo, at least for now, an oopherectomy , goes against common medical practice in the US and, most likely, against most of the advice she received.

A second top oncologist has quit in the wake of the KwaZulu-Natal health department's failure to keep two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines operational at Durban's Addington Hospital, Sapa was told on Friday.

Some women don't have a bit of trouble taking Tamoxifen, the well-known cancer drug for estrogen positive receptor breast cancer.

Despite unceasing pain from neuroblastoma, an aggressive cancer he battled for four years, Joey managed to summon strength every day to lift the spirits of his family, friends and caregivers.

Hyderabad, May 16 : For the first time in Andhra Pradesh, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital Research Institute has set up Neuro Oncology facility in its premises.

New News In Biotechnology The American Society of Clinical Oncology conference is convening in two weeks.

Officials with McCook's Community Hospital broke ground for a new Radiation Oncology Center on Tuesday, even as temperatures reached into the triple digits.

Dr. David Gullion, an oncologist at Marin Specialty Care/Marin Cancer Institute, has been singled out for recognition by Zero Breast Cancer, a San Rafael nonprofit.

Men who are physically fit in middle age have a lower risk of developing and dying from certain cancers, new research indicates.

An experimental drug that taps the power of the body's immune system to fight cancer is shrinking tumors in patients for whom other treatments have failed, an early study shows.

Data contained in the published abstracts was current as of the submission deadline of February 5th, 2013.

After decades of using one-size-fits-all therapies to combat cancer, doctors are using new tools to help decide when their patients can skip chemotherapy or other harsh treatments.

Today the US Food and Drug Administration is announcing that it has approved Xofigo to treat men with symptomatic late-stage, castration-resistant prostate cancer that has spread to bones but not to other organs.

A breast cancer specialist from Truro is urging calm amongst women in Cornwall following the news that film star Angelina Jolie is to have her breasts removed in a double mastectomy.