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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the immunotherapy combination of Yervoy (ipilimumab) plus Opdivo (nivolumab) to treat patients with intermediate- or poor-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma in the frontline setting.

When I was a kid, my Walkman helped me through my chemotherapy treatments.

Can you believe I was invited to pay tribute to “Wonder Woman” in Baltimore last month? It’s true! I’ve never been so proud or excited. At 60 years old, that’s saying something.

We have the right and the obligation to honor our "veto vote" where our own health and healing is concerned.

If patients with colon cancer follow the previously-issued American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity, they can improve outcomes in to survivorship.

Waiting on a scan is sometimes the hardest part.

Breast cancer brings an unexpected type of notoriety. Read this survivor's story.

Too often, the news, internet and social media focus on the sad stories. As survivors, it is up to us to focus on those stories that are positive and how survivors living their lives. I call it the living stories.

Patients with cancer are often asked when they’ll be done with chemotherapy or treatment. Those of us with blood cancers and bone marrow type of cancers such as aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, lymphoma and leukemia, along with a host of other cancers sadly have to say, “never.”

What if prayers do not cure cancer every single time? No cancer patient or survivor should feel like a moral failure. Here are some suggestions from my experience to avoid hurting others with good intentions.

When stuck in this space, it is tempting to hide from life, but with all the beauty in the world, it doesn't serve any of us to hide.

Often, it is the nurses who hold the hands of the patient who is extremely ill in critical care or dying. It is the nurses left to comfort the grieving families after the devastating loss of a loved one.

Some patients with incurable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) should receive chemotherapy concurrent with palliative thoracic radiation therapy, according to an updated guideline released by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

Finding a lump on my remaining testicle sent me into a tailspin on while vacation.

I found my husband there in the dream. He was alive. He was healthy. He could talk again.

Just because you don't look sick, it doesn't mean that you are not.

How has cancer changed my life? Let me count they ways.

Findings from a phase 3 randomized clinical trial offer new hope to some patients who have advanced myelofibrosis.

While drug shortages are a pressing problem in the world of oncology, only a small percentage of patients are actually aware of the issue, according to a recent study.

Cancer is a serious business. But who said it needs to be a business of seriousness?

Losing my hair, eyebrows and eyelashes didn't change who I was. It didn't change they people who loved me. Thanks to bright colors and make up, people told me all the time that I looked great.

As part of the Prostate Cancer Foundation’s first annual campaign, Kristen Bell selected two winners because of their ‘candor and honesty’ to be honored.

PARP inhibitors are continuing to create buzz in the ovarian cancer space, both as single agents and in combinations that are currently being examined in clinical trials.

Physically, I was on an upswing, but emotionally, things weren't looking great.

It is important that adolescents and young adults with cancer reach out and seek support when they need it.

Sometimes worry is good. It keeps us alert and safe. Other times, we kick into worry overdrive and it is helpful to create a tool bag of ways to calm ourselves.

Doctors, don't just hear us, listen to us.

Ever walk into a room and forget what you're doing? Chemo brain made me do that daily.