Breast Cancer Awareness Month is a time to educate patients on early testing and breast cancer detection. Breast cancer symptoms should be understood, as well as how the disease progresses by stage. Patients may ask: Does the staging of breast cancer affect symptoms?
First-degree family history linked to increased penetrance.
Greater PFDE, PFNA, and PFUA associated with increased odds of previous melanoma.
Online misinformation is harming cancer patients. YouTube has been part of the problem, but a new policy might change that.
A meta-analysis suggests that ranitidine does not pose an increased risk of cancer when compared to other histamine-2 receptor antagonists.
The US supply of cisplatin is nearly restored, and shortages of carboplatin and methotrexate have been alleviated, the government says.
Too few patients receive biomarker testing to inform diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment decision making, and racial, geographic and other disparities put some patients at particular disadvantage.
Oncology nurses have an important role to play — and a legal responsibility — to recognize and ameliorate inequities that could affect patient compliance and access to cancer care for patients with disabilities.
When did Breast Cancer Awareness Month first begin? Discover its impact on awareness and research in the years since its inception.
Adding ipilimumab to treatment with nivolumab does not provide a clinically meaningful benefit in patients with certain cancers, a meta-analysis suggests.
