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Take a Mental Break: Psychosocial Issues and Women's Cancers
March 27th 2019Mike Hennessy, Sr., Chairman and CEO, discusses psychosocial issues associated with women's cancers — the mental, emotional, social and spiritual effects of cancer that occur at diagnosis, during treatment and throughout life after the disease.
Expanded Access Program May Have Broad Use With Clinical Benefit
March 25th 2019The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Expanded Access program appeared to have broad use, involved a wide variety of patients and drugs, and derived clinical benefit, according to an initial summary published in JAMA Oncology.
Managing Adverse Events of Breast Cancer with Your Oncology Nurse
March 23rd 2019Debu Tripathy, M.D., the editor in chief of CURE®, recently sat down at the Miami Breast Cancer Conference to discuss the importance of oncology nurses in breast cancer care and offered insight as to how they can keep up-to-date with the constant advancements in the field.
Ovarian Cancer Screening Tool Should be a Top Research Priority
March 21st 2019Did we bring this scary, painful, financially draining monster into our lives by eating too many cookies and not doing enough jumping jacks? We need a reliable diagnostic screening tool for ovarian cancer and we need it now.
Expansion Plans at St. Jude Aim to Help Cure Children in the U.S. and Around the World
March 20th 2019A hospital whose mission is to cure children’s catastrophic diseases is not only providing treatment, but also conducting research and making new medicines. Now, in addition to improving its patient-care and research capabilities, it plans to reach into low-income countries to help cure more children with cancer.
Triplet Combo Yields Durable Responses in Recurrent Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
March 19th 2019Treatment with the combination of Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Avastin (bevacizumab) and metronomic cyclophosphamide appeared safe and effective in women with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer, according to results from an open-label phase 2 study.