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…
Ulcerative colitis can cause persistent digestive issues that disrupt daily life. Symptoms may include diarrhea, frequent and urgent bowel movements, blood or pus in stool, severe cramps, nausea,…
Melanoma immunotherapy has a critical limitation: 40 to 60% of patients don’t respond. Arielle Elkrief, MD, discusses an innovative approach targeting the gut microbiome. By using fecal microbiota…
Rheumatoid arthritis isn’t just about joint pain—it can affect multiple organs, leading to complications like heart disease, lung fibrosis, eye conditions, skin vasculitis, and nervous system issues. Micah…
Jimmy Ruiz, MD, reflects on his career journey in North Carolina and the transformative progress in lung cancer treatment. Early in his career, limited tools like chemotherapy presented…
David Simel, MD, and William Kim, MD, explore renal cell carcinoma in this JAMA Clinical Review podcast. They discuss key insights from the 2019 Nobel Prize research on…
Advances in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) treatment have transformed care from a one-size-fits-all approach in the 1990s to highly personalized regimens today. Treatment now considers actionable mutations…
Faith Davies, MD, shares insights from the IMS 2024 session on high-risk disease, highlighting the debut of a unified high-risk definition. This new framework incorporates 17p deletions, mutations,…
Muneeb Shah MD, and Luke Maxfield, MD, break down the essentials of skin cancer, explaining the causes, symptoms, and treatments of basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and…
The dialogue between Venugopal, MD, and Nabhan, MD, delves into unresolved challenges in treating chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Venugopal emphasizes the need for targeted therapies in CML blast…
Lobular breast cancer presents unique challenges in detection and treatment due to its diffuse growth pattern and differences from ductal cancers. Liz O’Riordan, MD, shares her personal journey,…
