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Dr. Toyosi Odenike, University of Chicago and Dr. Eric Padron, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, discuss the highlights of their session on Non-Transplant Treatments for Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) and Secondary Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) at the 2018 AAMDSIF International Bone Marrow Failure Disease Scientific Symposium, March 2018.

For a while, it seemed like Jennifer had the perfect life. She was expecting a baby girl and marrying the love of her life. Then things took a turn and she was thrown into single motherhood with a cancer diagnosis.

Focusing on the "and" instead of the rest

“Sometimes ‘a new normal’ seems to have a bad connotation,” said Nicole Lise Feingold, director of Patient Services at the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN).

Having cancer can change the word "normal" forever.

Women are more likely to die from bladder cancer earlier on after diagnosis, according to recent study findings published in the European Journal of Cancer. However, after that time frame the risk of death is higher for men.

Nothing is worse than the long-term effects like chemo fog and going deaf. I do think that we need to report these medications and hope research will try to develop treatments with fewer side effects.

The Food and Drug Administration approved Nivestym (filgrastim-aafi), a biosimilar to Neupogen (filgrastim), for five eligible indications.

This week, I celebrated eight years since diagnosis. It brought back a lot of thoughts and feelings.

"The objective is to equip the research and drug development communities with the data needed to move better MPN treatments, and potentially, cures, through the discovery pipeline more quickly."

Today's approval of Tibsovo, along with the diagnostic tool to determine who should get it, brings a new type of treatment for patients with acute myeloid leukemia.

While head and neck cancer is more common in men than in women, women may actually be less likely to receive aggressive treatment for the disease, which could affect outcomes.

Checkups and results are like cracking open the hidden messages of our cancer.

An expert discusses ways to complement cancer treatment and potentially improve outcomes.

“The lack of concern is significant because some survivors may not engage in risk-reduction activities, such as recommended screening tests and healthy behaviors,” Todd Gibson, Ph.D.

A newly developed blood test may identify people at an increased risk for lung cancer, even if they are not within the screening guidelines.

My heart seeks joy. My life is joyful, full of light. And I know trauma can live in the light, I have seen it and lived it.

The health care experts call it financial toxicity. I call it an agonizing, stress-inducing, horrifying choice between financial ruin and treatment of a life-threatening disease.

In this episode of CURE Talks Cancer, we spoke with a patient, survivor, caregiver and two social workers about the benefits of joining a support group and how they can help individuals through a cancer journey.

Understanding how melanoma spreads can lead to better outcomes. That's what researchers at UCSF aimed to do.

While we are more than the sum of our genes, genetic information is useful as we contemplate health issues, including cancer.

Thanks to two pilot programs, the FDA was able to more efficiently approve Kisqali for certain patients with advanced breast cancer.

"Scanxiety" is common in people with cancer, but is particularly prevalent in those with lung cancer, according to a recent survey.

Investigators at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston discovered that adding the PARP inhibitor veliparib to a standard chemotherapy regimen improved overall responses rates (ORR) in patients with relapsed small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

While there are known risk factors of developing acute myeloid leukemia (AML) – such as a myelodysplastic syndrome diagnosis and receiving chemotherapy and radiotherapy – a diagnosis can still stun and individual. But researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian recently discovered a genomic pre-malignant biomarker of the disease that can identify people who are at a greater risk for AML.

When I look in the mirror, I see that I am the byproduct of multiple surgeries. Sometimes, I feel as if I look like shark bait.

Researchers reviewed the cases of more than 20,000 women – some who went on to develop ovarian cancer, and some who didn’t – and found that there was a small, but statistically significant increase in ovarian cancer incidence in women who reported having severe menstrual pain.

Instead of feeling helpless, there are ways you can assist your loved one in navigating cancer. This post offers helpful tips to guide you along the way.

Many questions still remain in the treatment of localized bladder cancer, like which patients are best suited to receive neoadjuvant (pre-surgery) chemotherapy – a procedure that could be beneficial to many, but comes with increased toxicity.

A little smiling action, as opposed to frowning or grimacing, might just help combat the cancer fears and maybe even make you feel a bt better, too.