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Web Exclusive: Searching for New Targets
Newer targets found on cancer cells are providing scientists the ammunition to better treat cancer.
Quick Relief for Breakthrough Pain
Occurring in up to 86 percent of chronic pain patients, breakthrough pain can be relieved by medication that acts within minutes for a short time.
Easing Bone Pain
Cancer that has spread to the bone can cause chronic pain, and many patients are undertreated for it. Now, pain specialists are addressing this problem and creating pain strategies specifically for metastatic cancer patients.
Taking a Closer Look
Renal cell carcinoma is the most common type of kidney cancer, comprising more than 90 percent of all kidney cancers.
Web Exclusive: Fertility Guidelines Not Meeting Needs of Patients
ASCO fertility guidelines are still not yet widely followed.
A bone marrow-thon
The Journey of Cancer Survivorship
A timeline for the development of awareness about cancer survivorship.
www.armyofwomen.org
Women are being recruited for a different kind of army.
Prostate, Brain & Kidney Cancers
New drug therapies aid in the treatment of prostate cancer, glioblastoma, and renal cell carcinoma.
Got cancer? Blame it on Drew's cancer
Web Exclusive: Q&A with Dr. Dennis Slamon
Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD, talks about his involvement in the history of Herceptin.
Web Exclusive: A Dangerous Side Effect
Herceptin can cause cardiac toxicity
Cancer Treatment Gets Personal
Recent cancer research has been able to allow doctors to know what treatments work in certain patients—and what treatment don’t.
Avastin Successful With Various Chemotherapies in Breast Cancer
Adding Avastin to standard therapy delays progression of advanced HER2-negative breast cancer in women without prior treatment.
Trial Confirms Benefit of Targeted Combination in Lung Cancer
A large phase III study examining whether the addition of Tarceva (erlotinib) to Avastin (bevacizumab) delayed progression of advanced non-small cell lung cancer reached its primary goal.
CA-125 Monitoring Not Helpful for Ovarian Cancer Survivors
Results from an international study challenge current practice of screening for ovarian cancer relapse.
Therapeutic Vaccine Delays Lymphoma Recurrence
Researchers of a follicular lymphoma trial hope that BiovaxID, a personalized vaccine, could help delay recurrences.
Zactima Delays Advanced Lung Cancer Growth
An international phase III trial found the investigational lung cancer drug, Zactima (vandetanib), significantly slowed the time a patient’s advanced lung cancer progressed.
How do we improve cancer clinical trial participation?
Chemobrain research and attention growing
Are cancer survivors more likely to be unemployed?
Cancer Survivors Hit Harder with Job Losses
Experts offer advice to survivors after a study shows people with cancer have a higher risk of being unemployed than people without a history of cancer.
International Melanoma Tissue Bank in the Works
A new organization aims to strike back at melanoma by developing the first-ever international melanoma tissue bank.
Meeting Tackles Topics for Young Breast Cancer Survivors
The 8th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer welcomed women diagnosed with breast cancer at 40 or younger.
Lymphoma, Myeloma & Prostate Cancer
FDA approves Mozobil for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma, and Degarelix for advanced prostate cancer.
Web Exclusive: Identifying Insurance Challenges (and Solutions)
Top insurance challenges facing cancer patients and how to get help.
Childhood Cancer Survivors Skip Needed Mammograms
Childhood cancer survivors skip needed mammograms
CancerCare Telephone Education Workshop: Seventh Annual Cancer Survivorship Series
Patients call in for survivorship series teleconference
Ad Campaign Targets Health Care Reform
Connecting quality health care with economics