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From Robin Roberts’ personal message about her partner, Amber Laign’s cancer, to a dancing group inspired by an “America’s Got Talent” contestant who died of cancer, here’s what is happening in the cancer space this week.

Watch Dr. Suchita Pakkala, from Emory University School of Medicine, discuss estrogen receptor-positive disease, during the CURE Educated Patient Metastatic Breast Cancer Summit.

Post-cancer depression sometimes makes me feel like I’m being run over by a bus, but here’s some advice on how to let it pass by.

Care teams often implant a chemo port into patients with cancer to provide easy access for blood draws and to deliver treatments such as chemotherapy and antibiotics. Here, as part of its Heal at Home series, CURE® works with a nurse to provide a guide for patients to care for their port.

Recent clinical trial results have given me new hope that one day soon, a cure for all cancers will be found.

Tafinlar plus Mekinist is now approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat adults and children over the age of 6 who have BRAF V600-mutant advanced solid cancers.

In CURE®’s “Speaking Out” video series, on behalf of Living Beyond Breast Cancer, Dr. Nancy Lin discusses treatment planning for brain metastases in breast cancer and how patients can take part in driving their care.

The FDA approval of the first poly (adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase, or PARP, inhibitor in the 2010s has drastically changed how patients with gynecologic cancers are treated.

I was lucky to find a cancer resource center that offered support groups, free wigs and plenty more — including delicious luncheons for survivors and their families.

Cancer treatment has evolved over the past 20 years, but has the way it is depicted in television and movies also changed?

Long-term follow-up shows that the CAR-T cell therapy Tecartus continues to elicit durable responses in patients with relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma.

Looking back, perhaps a poem could have helped me tell my family about my cancer diagnosis.

Many patients with cancer who have limited financial resources or high insurance co-pays have started to use crowdfunding campaigns to pay for the daunting bills associated with their treatment and subsequent care.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer, I struggled to discuss what was going on, but once I started a blog, the sunshine began to pour in.

The use of newer tools and techniques may be reducing the risk of surgical site infections and other complications in patients receiving treatment for gynecologic cancers.

Sierra Oncology noted in a company-issued press release that if momelotinib is approved by the FDA that they anticipate making the drug available to patients with myelofibrosis next year.

It is incredibly important that patients with MPNs inform their health care team of any symptoms they are experiencing, according to an expert from The Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson Cancer Center.

People are always shocked when I tell them I am a breast cancer survivor, highlighting the need to discuss the fact that people under the age of 40 can be diagnosed, too.

It has been 46 years since my brother died of cancer, and I have finally reached the “bitter resentment” stage of grief.

Recent study findings demonstrate that certain older women with breast cancer may be able to skip chemotherapy after treatment with endocrine therapy.

One patient turned her diagnosis of multiple myeloma into a way to educate others as an advocate.

Day after day, patients come in to receive chemotherapy treatment, passing rooms with warning signs and hospital staff in protective isolation gear. They want to know they are safe.

Some people are drawn to nursing by an experience or because they have a family filled with medical workers. For others, it just seems to come naturally, a calling that is deep within, as natural as the air they breathe.

I hope every patient and their family can feel the caring that two angels standing by a shoulder can bring.

Jonlyn McGettigan, RN, FNP, is, once again, an extraordinary healer.

Two cancer survivors shed light on how they adjusted their daily routines to deal with the debilitating pain from neuropathy.

My daughter is a cancer “previvor” because she inherited a cancer gene from her mother, so this Father’s Day, I’m celebrating her, too.

A phase 2a trial is kicking off to study frontline GB1211 with the immunotherapy agent Tecentriq in patients with advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.

Watch Dr. Jeremie Calais, Dr. Tian Zhang, Dr. Landon C. Brown and Jim Rosenfield answer questions about novel agents and strategies during the CURE Educated Patient Prostate Cancer Summit.

Adolescents and young adults with sarcoma, a group of cancers that begin in the bone and soft tissue, need more education regarding chronic pain management and opioid addiction, according to a group of researchers.