A one‑year course of T‑DM1 offers excellent cancer‑free survival for early HER2‑positive breast cancer, with far less nerve ...

For the first time in 30 years, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a new treatment for an inoperable type of pancreatic cancer​.

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

The author faced challenges with chemotherapy, initially opting for a combination of oral and intravenous treatments before switching to oral medication only. The COVID-19 pandemic allowed the author ...

DOCTOR, SEVERAL NEW TREATMENTS ARE REVOLUTIONIZING THE FIGHT AGAINST BREAST CANCER AND CHIEF OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY AT MERCY MEDICAL CENTER, DOCTOR DAVID REISBERG IS JOINING US NOW WITH SOME MORE ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is a systemic treatment. This means the medicines will travel ...

Mouth cancer chemotherapy (chemo), targeted therapy, and immunotherapy are called systemic therapies. They travel through the bloodstream to treat mouth cancer cells anywhere in the body. Your care ...

Oklahoma Children's Hospital debuts targeted chemo for rare eye cancer, treats first child in state ...

Results from a global phase 3 clinical trial led by investigators at Mass General Brigham show that the medication romiplostim can effectively prevent chemotherapy from destroying platelet-producing ...

It may be best not to go off-script when it comes to breast cancer. Roughly 1 in 8 US women are expected to be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer at some point. It’s the most common cancer in women ...

A new study examines how exercise modality and dose could affect quality of life outcomes in women undergoing chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Radiation therapy works by using high-energy X-rays to kill cancer cells. MSK offers precise radiation therapy that kills throat cancer cells with fewer side effects from radiatio ...