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Delaying Breast Cancer Chemotherapy May Shorten Survival

Reducing the treatment burden can reduce the risk of serious side effects, some of which can endure for years.

Study suggests immune-based cancer therapies might be particularly beneficial for HIV-positive people.

“I remember thinking that the story would save lives,” writes Kristen Dahlgren. “I had no idea the life it would save would be my own."

People who receive chemotherapy for cancer have a higher risk of hep B reactivation.

Treatment depends on how advanced the cancer is when detected and whether it has spread elsewhere in the body.

Emily Garnett, 34, is a mom, wife and lawyer turned writer and podcast host living with metastatic breast cancer in the New York City area.

Some items to offer comfort from the winter chill

A study looked at circulating tumor DNA as a biomarker for health outcomes among women with triple-negative breast cancer.

Former Rockette Jennifer Jones followed health guidelines and got a colonoscopy at age 50. Then she learned she had Stage III colon cancer.

A nationwide survey found that health care providers could better prepare people for cancer treatment’s burdens.

Space travel and chemotherapy affect the body similarly, and yet only astronauts undergo physical conditioning to help them stay strong.

I had to break up with my love of heels and wear flats because of severe chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy in both feet.

“The more information we have from well-designed studies, the better we are able to counsel our patients,” said Larissa Korde, MD.

In her memoir “The Undying,” poet and essayist Anne Boyer refuses to be upbeat.