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…
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…
Jeremy Lieb, MD, Urologist, Pacific Urology Medical Group, explains that 50% of men with low risk prostate cancer are eligible for active surveillance, yet 9 out of 10…
Standard digital mammography plays a key role in detecting breast cancer. However, mammography has also come under some criticism because of the false positive results it can produce,…
