Komal Jhaveri, MD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and lead author of the EMBER-3 trial, as she discusses the significance of this approval, its impact on the treatment…
Sung-Bae Kim, MD, PhD, Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea, reports on results from the East Asian subgroup of the Phase 3 EMBER‑3 trial, showing that in patients…
John Papandrea, CEO of Willowglade Technologies, discusses some of the major frustrations breast cancer sufferers experience aside from their actual diagnosis. Willowglade has recently created a smartphone application…
Rebecca Kaltman, MD, oncologist and founder of Breast Cancer Consultants, explains why telemedicine is increasingly being embraced by both patients and specialist practitioners. In terms of cancer treatment,…
Each year, more than one and a half million women in the United States undergo a breast biopsy. After a breast biopsy, a pathologist evaluates the tissue to…
Patients diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer, are typically given Vincristine, a very powerful chemotherapy drug with a high toxicity called neuropathy…
Using an MRI, doctors are able to detect prostate cancer more effectively than the a traditional biopsy, which uses ultrasound technology. According to a study published in JAMA,…
Every year, thousands of women are diagnosed with breast cancer. Even among women with small breast cancers, survival rates vary greatly between women of different ethnicities. A study…
On October 13, 2014 the Metastatic Breast Cancer Alliance revealed the results of an analysis that identified 169 new target therapies under development for the treatment of metastatic…
Karen Shayne, Co-Founder, Women Survivors Alliance, talks about when a woman has survived her cancer, and what’s next for her life. The Women Survivors Alliance aims to help women…
Karen Shayne and Judy Pearson, Co-Founders, Women Survivors Alliance, discuss how their organization solves issues regarding current care for female cancer survivors, including: Absence of available resources for…
The Women Survivors Alliance is an organization that is geared towards providing support for women who have survived cancer, through community, communication, and networking. Co-founders Karen Shayne and…
