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Treatment Advances Help Fuel Survival Increases
SINCE 1991, CANCER DEATH RATES in the U.S. have dropped by 33%. Enhanced screening has allowed cancers to be caught earlier when the prognosis is better, while new therapies have improved and expanded...
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CHRONIC PAIN IS A REALITY for many people with cancer. Research shows more than half of people with early-stage cancer and about 75% with advanced cancer live with chronic pain, often caused by the...
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GINGER ROOT, AN AGE-OLD NATURAL REMEDY for nausea, may have a place in modern medicine. Researchers found that ginger capsules taken with anti-nausea medication can reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea...
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FOR KYLE BREWINGTON, 32, cancer has been a reality since 2006, when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma in his left tibia at the age of 13. The cancer recurred 10 years later. In 2022, Brewington, who...
View ArticleBreast Cancer: Making Treatment Decisions
IN SEPTEMBER 2021, Kate Hovde, a private consultant in education and social policy who lives in Philadelphia, went for a routine mammogram. An anomaly in her left breast prompted her doctors to...
View ArticleImmunotherapy Improves Survival in Early-stage Kidney Cancer
PATIENTS WITH KIDNEY CANCER that hasn’t spread to distant parts of their body typically undergo surgery. But even when all signs of the cancer are removed, it is estimated some 20% of people with...
View ArticleA More Targeted PARP Inhibitor
CURRENT PARP INHIBITORS—approved for treating several cancers, including BRCA-related breast, ovarian and prostate cancer—target both PARP1 and PARP2, two enzymes that help cancer repair DNA. PARP...
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Innovative Therapy Takes a BiTE Out of Cancer
William G. Nelson, MD, PhD Photo by Joe Rubino ANTIBODIES THAT CAN SIMULTANEOUSLY BIND both to cancer cells and to immune cells—some of them given the trademarked name BiTEs, for bispecific T-cell...
View ArticleThe Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Access to Cancer Care
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Aggressive Approach to Very Advanced Cancer Does Not Extend Survival
Challenges & Choices is an ongoing series where we tackle the most difficult questions in cancer care. From finances to end-of-life care, we will explore how you can be prepared with practical...
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