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An expert explained that patients with breast cancer who undergo genetic testing may help their family members, regardless of whether patients have children.

“We tried very hard, my daughter and I, to have a daughter-father relationship, not a daughter-doctor relationship,” said Dr. Michael Weiner on this episode of the “CURE® Talks Cancer” podcast, in which he discussed his career, his own cancer journey and his daughter’s diagnosis.

Progression-free survival improved with Retevmo as the initial treatment for patients with advanced RET-mutant medullary thyroid cancer.

In this week’s episode of CURE Talks Cancer, we spoke with Voigt about how he noticed a lump in a woman’s neck while watching tv and utilized the power of social media to find her – which ultimately led to a thyroid cancer diagnosis.

Monumental treatment advancements over the past two decades have given patients with thyroid cancer the ability to live longer and better lives, according to an expert from Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Institute. However, more work is needed to find curative treatments.

Although certain cancer treatments have been linked to an increased risk of a secondary cancer years later, an expert notes there are no genetic or pathologic studies that prove the association between new and previous cancers.