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Clinical trial enrollment must become speedier for patients with rare diseases such as anaplastic thyroid cancer, says Maria Cabanillas, M.D.

This is the time of year when we spend a lot of time thinking about gifts. Who is on the list? What is the best gift for each person?

This breast cancer and melanoma cancer survivor is done playing the "I'm not good enough" tape.

More advancements in lung cancer are bound to be made, says Edgardo S. Santos, M.D.

Relearning the meaning of the season after cancer

When I unexpectedly joined the cancer program, just before my 50th birthday, I was sure I had the “right stuff” to meet the challenge.

President Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act into law, allocating more than $6 billion for precision medicine, research, drug abuse prevention and mental health over the next decade.

Immunotherapy agents have their own set of side effects, and managing them quickly and efficiently is key.

Nurses at the Cleveland Clinic are pushing to make survivorship care the norm for survivors of head and neck cancer.

A three-drug combination showed both tolerability and favorable overall response rates (ORR) for patients with smoldering multiple myeloma in a phase 2 trial.

It easy to get wrapped up in the unknowns when dealing with cancer.

When this patient with metastatic breast cancer couldn't find a way out of isolation and depression on her own, a serendipitous evening with women confronting the same diagnosis did the trick.

Having strong social support may lead to better breast cancer outcomes, according to a recent study.

Nutrition, though often overlooked, plays a key role in mitigating the symptom burden of patients with pancreatic cancer.

IMMU-132 had durable responses in patients with heavily pretreated triple-negative breast cancer, according to a recent study.

The curse within the cure of modern medicine

When my mother was given a teddy bear after her mastectomy, I was mystified. How could hugging a teddy bear help? When people started giving me doll figurines after my cancer diagnosis, I started to understand. Hope begins not just with medical intervention but also with the power of the imagination.

Women who are experiencing symptoms of menopause often mistake those events as treatment side effects, leading to a decrease in adherence.

A recent study found that scalp cooling is a safe and effective way to reduce hair loss for women with breast cancer who are undergoing chemotherapy.

Murray Korc, M.D., of the IUPUI Pancreatic Cancer Signature Center, said that the future holds drastic changes for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.

The treatment landscape of bladder cancer drastically changed this spring with the approval of an immunotherapy agent, and will continue to shift in the months and years to come.

A cancer survivor faces a fear and reads the book, "When Breath Becomes Air."

How and why I've chosen to live my cancer in the public eye.

According to results from a recent trial, patients with heavily pretreated lung cancer showed a durable response and clinical benefit with durvalumab.

A subset of patients with breast cancer saw an increase in progression-free survival with the addition of Afinitor to Faslodex.

Keytruda improved quality of life for patients with lung cancer in a recent trial.

Janet Jones' life changed drastically when she went from oncology nurse to patient with breast cancer.