Rare Cancers

On social media, CURE® recently asked its readers with rare cancers what advice they would offer to fellow patients with a similar diagnosis. Here’s what they shared.

A cancer survivor writes about how he, like many, was blindsided by his diagnosis and what it was like to receive treatment for a rare disease: penile cancer.

After a median follow-up of 9.9 months, 38% of the trial participants experienced some degree of tumor shrinkage after receiving Opdivo in combination with Yervoy.

New treatments are needed for penile cancer, but it’s difficult to test drugs in clinical trials because the disease is so uncommon.

A woman shares her late husband’s journey with advanced penile cancer to help others receive a diagnosis early, when the disease is still highly treatable and even curable.

In this episode of the “CURE Talks Cancer” podcast, we spoke with an expert about some of the possible causes of penile cancer, as well as why research in the field is severely lacking and why it’s so important to inform the public about what to look for in terms of signs and symptoms of this disease.

Salivary cancer is a rare disease that has some of the greatest variances of all types of cancer.

Patients with neuroendocrine tumors have more treatment options than ever before.

Fighting retroperitoneal sarcoma can be like fighting a rare and giant beast.