Oncology News

With the death last week of Yale surgeon Dr. Sherwin Nuland, the New York Times obituary credited his 1993 best-selling book, "How We Die ," with being the catalyst that spurred many conversations about end-of-life care.

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As Aimee Parani puts it: "It's been a helluva year." Marking one year since her diagnosis for breast cancer while pregnant, Aimee Parani has seen numerous life-altering changes in 12 short months.

In association with its 50th anniversary, the American Society of Clinical Oncology has named Dr. Daniel D. Von Hoff one of ASCO's 50 Oncology Luminaries, celebrating 50 doctors who over the past half-century have significantly advanced cancer care.

Signalling pathways such as Hedgehog , Wnt, Notch, bone morphogenetic protein and transforming growth factor-I2 hold a central position in regulation of vertebrate development by controlling vital processes such as migration, differentiation and proliferation.

Greenville Health System's Institute for Translational Oncology Research has just launched the nation's first center dedicated exclusively to the treatment and research of rare cancers.

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

Lyle Southam, 62, enrolled in the CHALLENGE study in 2013 after completing treatment for colon cancer.

Five years ago on March 6, 2009, Dr. Steven Brozinsky, a fine fellow, informed me after my colonoscopy that I had a tumor on my colon that he knew was cancer.

Until now, it wasn't known why some suffer light effects and others a greater ordeal, even though they underwent similar chemotherapy.

Health specialists in the city will join forces with charity Target Ovarian Cancer to run a special event for women living with or beyond ovarian cancer.

It offers development of advanced technology solutions and services to personalize the development and use of oncology drugs.

One in eight women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. Each year, 22,000 will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

More than half of end-stage cancer patients receive chemotherapy during the last few months of their life, and those who received such treatment were more likely to die in a hospital intensive care unit, hooked to a ventilator, rather than at home as they would have preferred, says a new study Patients were also less likely to have discussed their ... (more)

By Tracy Simons, Silver Cross Hospital According to the American Cancer Society, in 2013 an estimated 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed among women, as well as an estimated 62,570 new cases of carcinoma in situ will be diagnosed this year.

Jorge Wong, a radiation oncologist with Central Care Cancer Center, was not negligent when he gave radiation treatments to a patient who may or may not have had cancer, a jury decided Friday.

Bradmer Pharmaceuticals Inc. today announced its fourth quarter and full year 2013 operational and financial results.

Fifteen years ago, a handful of poorly constructed, clearly biased studies purported to show that prayer was a legitimate medical tool.

Before Deborah Cohan settled into her second round of chemotherapy, she dunked her brown ringlets in water and was fitted with a tight, silicone and neoprene cap that would cool her head to just above freezing.

A Lewiston woman's husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer seven months ago; she said when they found out it was too late.