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To Improve Quality of Life and Health Outcomes, Seek Supportive Care
August 22nd 2019When cancer centers emphasize supportive care, patients, survivors and their families benefit and health outcomes can even improve. In this issue of CURE®, we take you inside a facility dedicated to this kind of care — The Supportive Care Center at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Laughing From My Belly: How Humor Helped My Cancer Recovery
August 17th 2019Some of the greatest doctors in the world were responsible for my survival and recovery from acute myeloid leukemia…but the Three Stooges, W.C Fields, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Marx Brothers played a major role as well.
Medicare Coverage of CAR-T Cell Therapy Opens Patient Access to Life-Saving Treatment
August 17th 2019Following its announcement of covering chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy nationwide, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has now made this highly-priced, but life-saving, treatment available to many who would not otherwise have access to it at their cancer centers.
FDA Approves Rozlytrek to Treat Certain Patients With an NTRK Gene Fusion and NSCLC
August 16th 2019The Food and Drug Administration approved Rozlytrek (entrectinib) for adult and adolescent patients 12 years of age and older whose cancers have the NTRK gene fusion and for adults with non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors are ROS1-positive and have spread to other parts of the body.