Exercise during curative chemotherapy for breast cancer has proven benefits. It helps reduce fatigue, preserve muscle strength, improve fitness, and enhance overall quality of life. Staying physically active…
With a wave of FDA approvals and promising clinical trials, treatment options for metastatic breast cancer are expanding fast. Amy Tiersten, MD, highlights the power of immunotherapies—especially checkpoint…
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,…
Paul Roossin, Science Director, Nanotronics Imaging, discusses the goals of the company to use and develop high-tech, cutting-edge microscopes and software to deliver rapid testing and analysis solutions to…
Identifying altered genes in lung cancer tumors and using this treatment to target therapy for treating the disease has transformed the approach of cancer treatment. A new study…
Juliann Reiland, MD, Surgeon, Avera Medical Group, discusses the merits of combining intraoperative radiation therapy with whole breast radiation therapy. Things Doctors Should Know About Electron Beam Radiation Therapy…
Juliann Reiland, MD, Surgeon, Avera Medical Group, discusses her goal to treat breast cancer while maintaining the look of the breast after surgery. Using intraoperative radiation, Dr. Reiland is…
Juliann Reiland, MD, Surgeon, Avera Medical Group, explains that breast conservation lumpectomy combined with a 6 week program of radiation that sterilizes the breast is the most effective…
Chris Leamon, PhD, Vice President of Research, Endocyte, notes Endocyte’s goals for developing targeted medicines using small molecule drug conjugate platforms. Vintafolide, Endocyte’s lead product, contains a drug called…
