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Cancer Health Summer Issue
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Breast Cancer Tumor Test Lets Many Women Avoid Chemotherapy
Prostate Cancer Screening Should Be an Individual Decision

Late-Onset Diabetes Diagnoses for Blacks and Latinos Could Warn Early of Pancreatic Cancer

Some folks in minority populations are more likely to develop cancer of the pancreas if diagnosed with diabetes after age 50.
Very high magnification micrograph of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC). H&E stain. MCCs are aggressive neuroendocrine tumour of the skin. They can be considered a small round cell tumor.

Immunotherapy Benefits Patients With Advanced Merkel Cell Carcinoma

‘Incredibly big change’ in treatment of deadly skin cancer, new data show

Fitness Trackers Predict How Cancer Patients Will Respond to Treatment

Doctors say the high-tech health devices are also good at objectively measuring quality of life.

Easing Concerns About Giving Study Participants Their Genetic Test Results

“There’s been a lot of concern about variants of unknown significance and the confusion and stress they may cause for patients.”
A patient’s T cells arrive at the Novartis manufacturing facility in Morris Plains, where they will be re-engineered to recognize and fight cancer and healthy cells expressing a specific antigen in the patient’s body.

Kymriah CAR-T Therapy Shows Durable Response in Adults With Lymphoma

About 80 percent of responders remained relapse-free a year after receiving tisagenlecleucel.

Choosing Between Death and Deportation

What happens when an undocumented immigrant has a life-threatening diagnosis? Much depends on where the person lives.

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New Cancer Drug Works Regardless of Tumor Location
Can Light Drinking Raise Cancer Risk?
CAR-T Therapy: Lifeline to A Cure?
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More Than 40 Percent of Cancers May Be Preventable
Prostate Cancer Screening Reduces Deaths, but Controversy Remains
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Tecentriq Plus Avastin Slows Kidney Cancer Progression
Immune checkpoint inhibitor monoclonal antibodies (Ab) that block PD-1 proteins target immune cells in the lymph nodes and immune and cancer cells in tumors.

Making the Most Out of Immunotherapy

Perhaps the decade’s greatest achievement in melanoma treatment has been the FDA’s approval of checkpoint inhibitors.

ASCO Endorses Integrative Oncology Guidelines for Breast Cancer Patients

Yoga, meditation, acupuncture and more can be safely used to relieve side effects of standard treatment.

Long-Term, Successful HIV Treatment Tied to Lower Cancer Risk

However, people with long-term suppression of HIV still have a higher risk of cancer compared with HIV-negative individuals.

Financial Assistance

These organizations offer financial help for a variety of issues.
Kari, Emily and Tom Whitehead with their dog, Lucy

Giving Hope a Chance

Tom and Kari Whitehead share how their daughter’s experience with CAR-T therapy motivated them to support research.

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Head to Toe

Our latest favorite products to help you look and feel your best

Paying for Cancer Care

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Spare Your Hair During Chemo

Scalp cooling technology can prevent hair loss caused by cancer treatment.
Bethany Hornthal (second from left), Hope Rugo, MD (third from left), and scalp cooling grant recipients Carla Thomas (left) and Stephanie Wells (right) at an October 2017 HairToStay fundraiser in San Francisco

Leveling the Playing Field

HairToStay gives scalp cooling subsidies to people nationwide.
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What Is Multiple Myeloma?

Outcomes are improving for this hard-to-treat blood cancer.
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