This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed changes to improve and modernize breast cancer screening. In their proposal, the FDA submitted amendments to the current regulations that would provide patients with more detailed information. This information, which would include breast density, would help patients make better decisions regarding their personal health care.
Though narrowly defeated in the Maryland Senate, versions of similar bills are being considered in other states. If these bills pass, what will become of end-of-life care?
Despite emotional testimony from women who say their breast implants made them sick with cancer or autoimmune symptoms, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has no plans to ban the textured implants that are being blamed.
From professional athletes to an FDA Breakthrough Therapy designation, here’s what is making headlines in the cancer space this week.
Support is essential for cancer survivors, especially as we struggle to reintegrate into our lives.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute opens the first-ever Lynch Syndrome Center to help patients and families with the inherited condition.
The FDA announced on March 27, 2019 that it is working to update mammography regulations, expanding the amount of information that mammography facilities must give patients and healthcare professionals.
Everyone will go through a tough time or a trauma in their life. You need a go-to list of items you can latch onto to help you through it.
Three sisters trace their family’s experiences with breast and ovarian cancer across generations.
Barriers to treatment can be an uphill battle for patients with cancer; however, one company is here to help.
It’s hard to let go of fear when that’s all you feel. It’s called rumination. The trick is finding ways to stop ruminating about the fear to be able to live fully until whatever is going to happen, happens.
Family and friends receive the cancer diagnosis right along with the patient. People change, relationships change and life as you know it may never be the same.
We all have our angels here on earth, but need to know where to find them (and be one) on our difficult cancer journey.
Enormous progress has been made in breast cancer, yet many challenges remain, according to Ann H. Partridge, M.D., MPH.
Administration of Opdivo (nivolumab) before surgical resection in patients with glioblastoma appeared safe and feasible, according to phase 2 trial results published in Nature Medicine.
There is still work to do in the field of molecular diagnosis for renal cell carcinoma, according to David I. Quinn, MBBS, Ph.D., FRACP, FACP.
In metastatic breast cancer, the brain MRI is often a special request for what you don't want but truly need.
Making the shift from survivor to 'thriver' is challenging. In this post, learn how one survivor makes the change.
The 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.
This cancer survivor finds a hidden treasure in death and dying.
Debu 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.
From fertility research developments for childhood cancer to today’s top performers and entertainers, here’s what’s making headlines in the cancer space this week.
Many children with cancer participate in clinical trials. Perhaps little children should be leading us more often in health care?
How being treated for an allergy to cats and persistence finally led to my diagnoses of Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Did 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.
Surprise! You can’t believe everything you read on the internet!
