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“This is a small-site, single-arm study, but these preliminary data are encouraging,” says lead study author Roberto Pili. “It suggests that this combination of an HDAC inhibitor can induce a greater benefit with an immunotherapy — in this case, IL-2.”

Although it is often a sensitive topic to discuss, being obese puts women at a higher risk for developing — and dying from— endometrial cancer.

Despite advances in treatment for bladder cancer and RCC, there is still an unmet need for navigating biomarkers that will offer insight as to which patients will respond best to treatment.

Those of us touched by cancer know all too well that the stages of grief are not linear—not steps we move along with the precise choreography of ballet dancers.

A long-time stage magician and cancer survior shares a few tricks

A life-saving therapy for patients with prostate cancer may cause clinical depression, according to a recent study.

Oncology nurses should use evidence-based symptom interventions, such as exercise, to help their patients manage side effects like anxiety and fatigue.

“There are a lot of drugs, many targets, and still no cures,” says Figlin. “There is still an unmet need, despite the plethora of agents that have been approved in this space.”

The FDA granted olaratumab a priority review for some people with advanced soft tissue sarcoma (STS).

Writing about this disease helps me heal.

Perspective matters when confronting what the future holds.

A recent study showed not only that it is possible to administer chemotherapy in an outpatient setting, but it also can improve patients' quality of life and save money.

Nightly fasting could reduce breast cancer recurrence, according to a study that looked at more than 2,400 women with early-stage breast cancer.

Lynch syndrome is an inherited cancer susceptibility syndrome caused by mutations in one of five DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes.

Cancer surviving caregiver strives to support her mom through cancer.

As oral cancer treatments continue to be used more frequently, nurses must be able to know that patients are following their regimen.

One oncology nurse took action to address skin toxicities associated with EGFR-inhibitor (EGFRI) targeted therapies.

When hope is lost, cancer wins.

Researchers from the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey are examining the possibility of directing treatment to the kidney in patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma in situ or small tumors in the kidney area.

Nurses at West Cancer Center in Memphis, Tennessee, developed a best nursing practice protocol for titration of fentanyl sublingual spray (FSS; Subsys) for breakthrough cancer pain.

Nurses and oncologists need to give portal vein thrombosis a closer look, according to one oncolgy nurse.

On making choices based on hopes and dreams and not fear of a reccurance.

Lymphedema presents clothing challenges.

Patients with cancer who are also a part of the LGBT community often face barriers when it comes to the care and treatment for their disease.

Multiple presenters at the 41st Annual Oncology Nursing Society Congress addressed risk and prevention of falls in patients with cancer, as it is a growing concern for health care providers.

Blessed are the caregivers, says two-time cancer survivor who is now helping her older mom cope with cancer.

It makes perfect sense to me now that exhaustion is one of the byproducts of cancer treatment. As blood counts drop, cells die, and the mental stress and strain builds, the vital energy force no longer flows like a raging river—it has all the power of a dripping faucet.

I am not a warrior who can handle anything. I am not the toughest person you know. I have no choice.